Kumaliza Kilio Quotes & Sayings

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house. — Victoria Lynn Schmidt

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States. — Pablo Escobar

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications. — Stephen Cambone

One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else. — John Bytheway

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. — Umberto Eco

Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn't be able to put it into words, except to say she felt removed from the world. Or just at its edge. At the edge of the wild and beautiful world. She felt small, too. But part of something large. She was happy. — Kevin Henkes

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell

A few years ago, there was a popular stage play in London - you'll have to pardon me, but I'm quoting accurately - titled Shopping and F***ing. That's an apt description of the passions of our era, the goals most of us, liberal and conservative, aspire to. Democrats are the Party of Lust, Republicans the Party of Greed - both are individualist and materialist to the core. — Rod Dreher

Nate liked Death. Death was in the clothes that he wore and the music he listened to. He would wrap himself in a black sweater and ask Death to ride along with him in his Honda Civic. — Lisa Ann Sandell

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne. — Christian Siriano

Well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers. — Joost Meerloo

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations. — Oscar Wilde

The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable — S.E. Sever