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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.


Paul Theroux


#books #finding #four #great #i

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.


Alan Thicke


#counseling #first #ground #offense #second

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.


Lewis Thomas


#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.


Brian McGreevy


#dreams #ground #lie #look #senses

I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes. I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha!


Ellie Williams


#common-ground #elliewilliams #humourous-situations #life #pressures

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...


John Geddes


#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.


William Faulkner


#faith

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.


Johannes Rau


#cents #creativity #economic #euros #gives

fury said to a mouse that he met in the house let us both go to law; I will prosecute you let there be no denial; come, we must have a trial for really, this morning, I've nothing to do such a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the cur without jury or judge would be wasting our breath I'll be judge, I'll be jury said cunning old fury I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death


Lewis Carrol


#death

We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce and steady truth, if you can continue to stand in it.


Jay Woodman


#power #stand #standing-your-ground #steady #truth-fierce






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