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Peter Jobes
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I was reading a post from Nathan Bransford the other day and in it he gave reasons, all of them sensible, why authors should have facebook pages. I've considered this question before and always resisted creating one on the grounds that it feels like asking people to become fans or some such thing, a notion that I am in no small way uncomfortable with.
I think this comes from my notions on the na...
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The Volga Ruby
— published 2008 — 2 editions |
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
“Louis, I might have known you'd mix your patriotism with a little larceny.”
― Rejected final line for Casablanca
― Rejected final line for Casablanca
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”
― John Ciardi
― John Ciardi
