The Seller Of Beliefs Quotes & Sayings

She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that. — Chuck Palahniuk

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety. — Pope Leo I

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things - whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. — George R R Martin

Strengths: Extremely fast flyers; adept with small, sharp weaponry.

(STILL VERY GOOD WITH THE LADIES.)

Weaknesses: Honey, torn ballgowns.

(and closets)

(AND A CERTAIN HUMAN COMPANION BUT NOW I'M GETTING TOO SENTIMENTAL AND THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY EYE.)

Well. Now I have something in my eye, too. — Elizabeth May

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are doing right and just in their actions. — Libba Bray

I don't think of myself all the time. — Norman MacCaig

If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy. — Toni Sorenson

...the scepticism of men, who do not truly believe in new things unless they have actually had personal experience of them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added. The — Patricia C. Wrede

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am! — Kajol

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness — Oswald Spengler

The blood of Christ "purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation" (Revelation 5:9 NIV). — Billy Graham

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime. — Trey Anastasio