October 6th Quotes

#1. If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral.
John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist since James Joyce.

John McGahern

#2. I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

Mort Sahl

#3. The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

Patch Adams

#4. A hand held tightly, never to really let go.
Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.

Patty Smith

#5. Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin's, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.

Paul Russell

#6. That he loved her was his life's greatest grace - that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Rosalind Miles

#7. His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.

Lydia Davis

#8. It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before.

Victoria Connelly

#9. Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

April Bloomfield

#10. The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

James Whistler

#11. There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood.

Ruth Ware

#12. And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peter Ackroyd

#13. In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.

Frederick Lenz