Wyrms Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie Snow

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do! — Louis L'Amour

It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it. — Steve Pavlina

Hello," he said, not missing a beat. "Glad you could make it. Alice, I understand you burned our door in half."
"Quentin helped. — Lev Grossman

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is
ingredients. — Jamie Oliver

Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough.
But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death. — Richard Powers

The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid and "material": the world comes before the schizophrenic with heightened intensity, bearing the mysterious and oppressive charge of affect, glowing with hallucinatory energy' (Jameson, 1984b, 120). The image, the appearance, the spectacle can all be experienced with an intensity (joy or terror) made possible only by their appreciation as pure and unrelated presents in time. So what does it matter 'if the world thereby momentarily loses its depth and threatens to become a glossy skin, a stereoscopic illusion, a rush of filmic images without destiny?' (Jameson, 1984b). The immediacy of events, the sensationalism of the spectacle (political, scientific, military, as well as those of entertainment), become the stuff of which consciousness is forged. — David Harvey

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. — Karl Barth

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band. — Kip Winger

IT IS EASY TO LOVE THAT WHICH YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK — Campbell

Science is not addressed to poets. — George Henry Lewes

But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it. It provided him with a way to structure his behavior, and a way to explain that behavior, both past and present, to himself. Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose
what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?
and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along. — Curtis Sittenfeld