Harpur Palate Quotes & Sayings

I keep being told that my writing is getting better and better. - Now, at first I am thrilled by that, but then I think, Isn't everybody's? Do some authors grow cozy with their own style, and stay there?
I think of writing fiction as an art form. As such, it's a constant exploration of new and developing ideas. If any of my books were much like my others, I don't think I'd even bother to write them. — Edward Fahey

King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true. — Queen Noor Of Jordan

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect. — Maurice Flanagan

Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon! — Herge

The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. — Jean Cocteau

[ ... ] a familiar art historical narrative [ ... ] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [ ... ] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis. — Grant H. Kester

UCC 2-207 ("Battle of the Forms" (O' MATE)): Under the UCC sec. 2-207, where both parties are merchants, additional or different terms become part of the contract unless: The terms are Objected to within a reasonable time; Terms MAterially alter the contract; or Offer is expressly conditioned on acceptance of those Exact Terms. — Mary Campbell Gallagher

When he raised his hand to wipe his chin, the card clutched in it had no longer been yellow. This time it was a dirty but still bright orange. — Stephen King

There's more to sex, the really good kind, than orgasms. — Kit Rocha

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! — Ida Tarbell

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. — Henry David Thoreau