Benito Cereno Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on. — Michael Eisner

The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows. — Steven Wright

"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business." — John Hickenlooper

He blamed her both for liking his mother and for — Jonathan Franzen

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing. — Natalie Goldberg