Malaki Starks Quotes

#1. Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

Elizabeth McCracken

#2. The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

#3. I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

Bill Shorten

#4. Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#5. My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Groucho Marx

#6. No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.

Rachilde

#7. Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

John Ralston Saul

#8. If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Fred Astaire