Trustbuster Progressive Era Quotes & Sayings

Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do
like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy. — Martin Amis

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Heartache is a part of life," she said, her voice very soft. "We have to accept it along with happiness if we ever hope to live fully. — The Editors Of True Story And True Confessions

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. — Sean Penn

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. — N.K. Jemisin

To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing. — Lydia Davis

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context. — Robert Mankoff

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell. — C. G. Jung

No whining. No complaining. No excuses. — Angela Duckworth

He needed to find his calm, to find his inner soldier and yank the fucker in front of the horny bastard who'd taken control of his mind. — Ellis Leigh