Fortunatus Dobbs Quotes & Sayings

Everything else can roast in Satan's left armpit! — Sara Wolf

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner
all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless. — Susanna Kaysen

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will. — John Key

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. — Lao-Tzu

Words ruin one's thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous down on paper, one's memory manages to lose hold of even this ruined and ridiculous something. Paper can turn an enormity into a triviality, an absurdity. If you look at it this way, then whatever appears in the world, by way of the spiritual world so to speak, is always a ruined thing, a ridiculous thing, which means that everything in this world is ridiculous and ruined. Words were made to demean thought, I would even go so far as to state that words exist in order to abolish thought, and one day they will succeed one hundred percent in so doing. In any case, words (are) bringing everything down. Depression derives from words, nothing else. — Thomas Bernhard

I've had that situation where I start writing somebody really miserable, and in order to make the story come alive, I have to give them a vote of confidence, make him vulnerable or wounded. But in real life, you often meet people who, in that particular moment, actually shouldn't get a vote of confidence. — George Saunders

Lincoln had pictured himself building firewalls and protecting the newspaper from dangerous hackers - — Rainbow Rowell

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? — Elizabeth Gilbert

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land. — Jeremy Grantham

Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken - you have absolutely no idea what they're going to do, which is really thrilling to watch. — Jamie Dornan

My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is - heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness. — Katherine Paterson

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. — Daniel Woodrell

And so they parted. And though the Lord of the Eagles became in after days the King of All Birds and wore a golden crown, and his fifteen chieftains golden collars (made of the gold that the dwarves gave them), Bilbo never saw them again - except high and far off in the battle of Five Armies. But as that comes in at the end of this tale we will say no more about it just now. — Anonymous