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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.


Louise Brooks


#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational

I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen Walsh, you're a genius. He had a point. I'm lazy and illogical. I've limited people skills. I'm easily bored and easily irritated. But I have moments of brilliance. They come and they go and I can't depend on them but they do happen.


Marian Keyes


#humorous #turn-of-phrase #family

People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face. "You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isn't my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. You've even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But you're not, are you?" "I hope not," I said. "You see, there you go again. You're a smart-arse and you've no ability to filter your thoughts---" "And my thoughts are often abrasive." "Exactly." "I'll just get my brushes and sponges and leave." "If you would.


Marian Keyes


#humorous #turn-of-phrase #way-with-words #family

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.


Terry Pratchett


#paraphrased #humor

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.


Helen Fielding


#life

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels


Jill Shalvis


#life

The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.


Tracy Thompson


#life

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type. 



Jarod Kintz


#distance #farmer #farmers #kindness #land

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.


Philip Pullman


#plot #parenting

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure


Oscar Wilde


#failure






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