34000 12 Quotes

#1. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Steven Wright

#2. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

#3. We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.

William Golding

#5. and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer - he

John Ferling

#6. Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

David Cone

#7. Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.

Ken Follett

#9. If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Lawrence Block