Thomas's favorite quotes

"I am human, all too bloody human."
— Peter O'Toole

"Everything is a version of something else."
— Patrick Marber (Closer)

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

"Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
— Robert Frost

tags: poem

140 people liked it

"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

364 people liked it

"It's like zen. Only not as subtle."
— J.J. Connolly (Layer Cake)

1 person liked it

"So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you."
— Joss Whedon (Serenity Official Visual Companion)

9 people liked it

"Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense."
— Ethan Hawke (Ash Wednesday)

4 people liked it

"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red."
— Clive Barker (Books of Blood 1-3)

26 people liked it

"The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all."
— Clive Barker (Cabal)

tags: humor, lulz, similes

11 people liked it

"No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering."
— Clive Barker (The Hellbound Heart)

15 people liked it

"A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself."
— Clive Barker (Imajica)

18 people liked it

"Darkness has always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light?"
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: beans, evil, goodness, inspirational

55 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

923 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life

839 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion

884 people liked it

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

tags: writing

328 people liked it

"I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
— Stephen King

tags: dark-humor

247 people liked it

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

144 people liked it

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
— Stephen King

tags: writing

151 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

138 people liked it

"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
— Stephen King

tags: art, on-writing

65 people liked it

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
— Stephen King

tags: writing

56 people liked it

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

tags: advice, writing

44 people liked it

"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
— Stephen King (The Shining)

tags: monsters

37 people liked it

"Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man."
— Stephen King

9 people liked it

"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
— Stephen King

tags: hope

23 people liked it

"…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself. "
— John Irving (A Widow for One Year)

20 people liked it

"…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time."
— John Irving (A Widow for One Year)

13 people liked it

"I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny. "
— Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys)

10 people liked it

""I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.""
— Jonathan Lethem (You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel)

tags: art, music

10 people liked it

"The Joker's henchmen break into the museum and empty the display cases; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes a part of the exhibition. "
— Jonathan Lethem (Kafka Americana: Fiction)

2 people liked it

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
— William Gibson

56 people liked it

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

33 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

90 people liked it

"Time is money, but also money is money."
— William Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

3 people liked it

"You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."
— Joss Whedon

tags: humor

120 people liked it

"Half of writing history is hiding the truth"
— Joss Whedon

tags: history, lies, truth

48 people liked it

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing."
— Joss Whedon

tags: humor, joss, whedon

105 people liked it

"I'll take crazy over stupid any day."
— Joss Whedon

112 people liked it

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

545 people liked it

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
— Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

222 people liked it

"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: identity

186 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life

232 people liked it

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: favorite, fiction

87 people liked it

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

91 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious

5,285 people liked it

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, sex

148 people liked it

"Writers block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, writing

71 people liked it

"Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties."
— Steve Martin

18 people liked it

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