Decurtis Quotes & Sayings

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind. — Michael Crichton

Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs. — Marlena De Blasi

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal

We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia. — Aleister Crowley

Grief is a closing that leads to an opening just exactly when you really don't want one. — Edward Fahey

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. — M.C. Escher

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself. — Paulo Coelho

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it. — Anthony DeCurtis

She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond. — Anne Ursu

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to
know what you want and go about getting it. — Anthony DeCurtis

When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot, makes it less fearful by containing it in a kind of game format. [from an interview with DeCurtis] — Don DeLillo

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense — Buda

In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed. — Anthony DeCurtis

It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside ... — Joan D. Chittister

I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes. — Zal Batmanglij