Snagov Palace Quotes & Sayings

I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still. — Eva Hart

Start with a girl whose blood has been steeped in Korea for generations, imprinted with Confucianism and shamanism and war. Extract her from the mountains. Plant her in wheat fields between the Red River and the Mississippi. Baptize her. Indoctrinate her. Tell her who she is. Tell her what is real.
See what happens.
Witness a love affair with freaks, a fascination with hermaphrodites and conjoined twins, a fixation on Pisces and pairs of opposites. Trace a dream that won't die: a vision of an old woman slumped on a bench, her spirit sitting straight out of the body, joined to the corpse at the waist. — Jane Jeong Trenka

On their deathbeds, people don't think about their work or their life experiences or the items remaining on their to-do list. They think about love and family. — Rick Rubin

That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.
His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder") — Cornell Woolrich

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future. — Stephen R. Covey

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip. — Charles R. Schwab

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness. — Rob Bell