Autodecrement Quotes

#1. The autodecrement is not magical.

Larry Wall

#2. Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.

Rae Carson

#3. Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

P.D. James

#4. May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?

Lao-Tzu

#5. The Kiss. It seemed like more than a kiss. It felt more like alchemy.

Blakely Bennett

#6. When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Olympia Dukakis

#7. This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

Chris Matakas

#8. Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the surprise and freshness is already gone. It's so different - in some ways much harder for me.

Susan Orlean

#9. People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

#10. It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R R Martin

#11. [N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Daniel Quinn

#12. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Henny Youngman