Continental System Quotes

#1. But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death.

Mark Leyner

#2. We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

Chris Mooney

#3. Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Marthe Bibesco

#4. The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

John Mearsheimer

#5. The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

Muriel Spark

#6. God gives us enemies to make sure there'll always be someone around who's interested in how we're doing.

James D. Macdonald

#7. There's nothing sexier than imaging myself as an Oxford comma getting unambiguously banged. Throw in a semicolon in between two closely related independent clauses, and a volcanic love of punctuation eruption is guaranteed.

Ella Dominguez

#8. Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Douglas Horton

#9. True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

Jane Lindskold

#10. I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

Mary Docter