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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.


Jack Vance


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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.


J. M. Coetzee


#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

Poetry: the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#best #order #words

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.


Penelope Fitzgerald


#exactly #external #external world #however #in other words

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.


Robert Fitzgerald


#appear #began #english #equivalent #except

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.


Dennis Flanagan


#being #hack #i #idea #like

From: The Crown of Telus She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and wished that it was all a dream. The crown of Trist was nothing special. It had no gemstones, no gold or silver filigree; instead it was simple, a metal circlet with four points and some inlay around a scratched and dented band. “It’s a working man’s crown,” she remembered her father holding the symbol of power out to her when she younger. “See the inlay? Three moons, one for each of our gods, over an oak which represents the mighty forests of the north, a shock of wheat for the Plainsmen to the south, a ship for the Gheltes to the west, and a hashap flower for the spice in the east. Nothing more. We don’t need anymore.” Tears welled in her eyes. A working man’s crown. Nothing fancy or bejeweled, a symbol of the power that guides the land and cares for its people. This was going to be the first day she wore it as queen.


William Laws


#fantasy-scifi #magic #swords-and-sorcery #dreams

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.


William Collins


#democracy #feminism #like #me #scare

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.


Alan Colmes


#did #i #know #last #little






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