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Paul -Danse's quotes
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"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
—
Clive Barker
tags:
chaos
,
horror
,
illusion
,
oblivion
,
reality
,
truth
39 people liked it
"In the end, following the Dark Road is no less honorable than following the Light, as long as it is done with a clear purpose."
—
Clive Barker
(
Abarat
)
tags:
evil
,
inspirational
24 people liked it
"To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels."
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Clive Barker
(
Mister B. Gone
)
26 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
958 people liked it
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
—
Stephen King
(
Shawshank Redemption
)
tags:
life
878 people liked it
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
—
Stephen King
tags:
-on
,
from
,
writing-
318 people liked it
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
—
Stephen King
tags:
writing
341 people liked it
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
—
Chuck Palahniuk
tags:
god
,
life
1,622 people liked it
"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
—
Chuck Palahniuk
(
Fight Club
)
tags:
life
228 people liked it
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
—
Chuck Palahniuk
tags:
chaos
,
discovery
131 people liked it
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
truth
,
writing
137 people liked it
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
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Ernest Hemingway
48 people liked it
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
drinking
152 people liked it
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
sleep
417 people liked it
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
drinking
715 people liked it
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
good
,
writing
1,967 people liked it
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
—
Ernest Hemingway
tags:
writing
39 people liked it
"You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face."
—
Ian Fleming
(
You Only Live Twice
)
tags:
bond
,
death
,
james
,
philosophy
,
poetry
197 people liked it
"Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.'"
—
Ian Fleming
tags:
bond
,
goldfinger
,
james
,
spy
26 people liked it
"Surround yourself with human beings. They are easier to fight for than principles"
—
Ian Fleming
14 people liked it
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
126 people liked it
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
53 people liked it
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
tags:
depressing
79 people liked it
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
—
Hunter S. Thompson
444 people liked it
"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
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Hunter S. Thompson
135 people liked it
"When the going gets weird the weird turn professional."
—
Hunter S. Thompson
(
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
)
tags:
life
179 people liked it
"It never got weird enough for me."
—
Hunter S. Thompson
97 people liked it
"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
—
Michael Crichton
tags:
death
,
fear
,
laughing
114 people liked it
"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
—
Michael Crichton
tags:
author
,
books
,
rewritten
,
written
15 people liked it
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