Emotionally Constipated Quotes

#1. How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

#2. I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

Joseph Ole Lenku

#3. Of course I would fall for Captain Emotionally Constipated. I could train a rock to hold more affection for me.

K.M. Shea

#4. Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Alfred E. Perlman

#6. The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.

George Saunders

#7. We live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

Marguerite Young

#8. The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.

Martha Beck