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"Ruminations on if it's worse to be called a cu*t or a co*k. This is probably my sort of thing." — Jan 26, 2024 09:05AM
"Ruminations on if it's worse to be called a cu*t or a co*k. This is probably my sort of thing." — Jan 26, 2024 09:05AM
“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”
― The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”
― The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
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