Debranner Quotes & Sayings

You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same. — Manil Suri

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand. — Edmund Burke

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. — Winston Churchill

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver. — Angela Carter

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. — Tom Waits

The kiss was flight, the kind of kiss that had magic I hadn't known existed. Or maybe it was the kind of kiss that I had known long before but had all but forgotten, like the scent of roses once they're no longer in bloom. — Ute Carbone

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith

What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course. — Stephen King