Duleeka Marapana Quotes & Sayings

It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what you wound up with was unalloyed chaos, an infinite jumble of exceptions. That was because writing was a disease, Tom continued, what you might call an infection or influenza of the spirit, and therefore it could strike anyone at any time. The young and the old, the strong and the weak, the drunk and the sober, the sane and the insane. Scan the roster of the giants and semi-giants, and you would discover writers who embraced every sexual proclivity, every political bent, and every human attribute - from the loftiest idealism to the most insidious corruption. They were criminals and lawyers, spies and doctors, soldiers and spinsters, travelers and shut-ins. — Paul Auster

We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives.
As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves.
The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot — Alan Watts

In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them. — Daron Malakian

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges. — Rand Paul

Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path. — Reed Albergotti

May the best man win
That's about right pup — Stephenie Meyer

... as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal- a hacked one. — Herman Melville

I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. — Robert Downey Jr.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. — Ronald Reagan

I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain. — Gary Morris

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. — Paul Nurse

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution. — Michael Moorcock