Wells Tower Quotes

#1. I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

Lorde

#2. I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

Randy Newman

#3. Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Mark Dever

#4. Little by little, the city falls away, like something giving up...

Harriet Lane

#5. Down Through the Valley"
"When Jane left me for Barry Kramer, it was a heavy kind of hurt, but by the time she took up with him, there wasn't a whole lot left for us. For quite a while, we'd been nothing but an argument looking for different ways to happen.

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#6. Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

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#7. God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it! Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms, but my ears were warm and sweaty, and my head had been held so tightly between her thighs that I hadn't heard anything.

John Irving

#8. Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Frank Pittman

#9. Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

#10. At times such as these, you get a good, humble feeling, like the gods made this place, this moment, first and concocted you as an afterthought just to be there to enjoy it.

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#11. He's just going to buy alcohol or drugs, you know, Lauren said, which made me sad, because she didn't know that man at all, let alone whether he had a dependency problem.

Matthew Quick

#12. i just wanna eat your face!

Rainbow Rowell

#13. Retreat"
"I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my brother's wrath.

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#14. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her.

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#15. Contentment is nothing more than a complete absence of judgment and resistance to what is.

Maximus Freeman

#16. If fear appears at your door you have two options, either you choose to let it in or you choose to grab onto the Lord and the promise of His presence no matter what.

Yilda B. Rivera

#17. I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

Gwen Ifill

#18. At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

Doseone

#19. With fiction, there's no reason why everything you write shouldn't be amazing. Nobody's stopping you from making up better stuff.

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#20. I was just kind of tripping out on what getting shot is all about. How it's just you getting touched by a little thing, only it's touching you really fast.

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#21. The subversive idea at the centre of Ericsson's work is that excellence is not reserved for the lucky few but can be achieved by almost all of us.

Matthew Syed

#22. He'd tell me love was like the chicken pox, a thing to get through early because it could really kill you in your later years.

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#23. If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.

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#24. With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in the sweet summer film of your life.

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