Dementing Syndrome Quotes & Sayings

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it. — Lynn Coady

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die. — Jeff Lindsay

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. — Lord Chesterfield

But Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth. — Matthew Quick

The story we write today will support the next generation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But desperate people find courage. — Ken Follett

One could guess that there was the delicate forethought of a mother behind this choice of the pavillon for Albert: while not wanting to be separated from her son, she nevertheless realized that a young man of the viscount's age needed all his freedom. On the other hand, it must be said that one could also recognize in this the intelligent egoism of the young man, the son of wealthy parents, who enjoyed the benefits of a free and idle life, which was gilded for him like a birdcage. — Alexandre Dumas

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake. — Jonathan Franzen

The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way. — Chuck Palahniuk

I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called decay, putrefaction, rotting, fermentation and moldering. This cause is the ability possessed by a body engaged in decomposition or combination, i.e. in chemical action, to give rise in a body in contact with it the same ability to undergo the same change which it experiences itself. — Justus Von Liebig

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting. — Orson F. Whitney

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California. — Susan Straight

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable! — April Bloomfield