Great quotes thread!!

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Inspired by the mentors posting!

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

-Alexandre Dumas

Post any quotes from writers your admire! :)
 

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From Dorothy Parker, when asked, in a game, to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence:

'You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.'

Chortle.
 

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"The less you bet, the more you lose when you win."
-- from somewhere on the World Poker Tour website (I'll find the proper attribution)

[ETA: Still looking. One site attributes it to Wyatt Earp; another calls it Bonetti's Law.]
 
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From George Bush Sr. - now that his son is in office he just don't get quoted enough.

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
 

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"I was working on the proofs of one of my poems one morning, I took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in again." Oscar Wilde
 

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My favorite quote from a writer has been written by millions of other writers all over the world. Its the thing I strive to write myself and a big motivator on the horizon. It is "The End".
 

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Stumbled upon this one the other day...

"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
– William Faulkner
 

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Not a favorite writer, but my favorite quote of all time is "I have looked everywhere and there is nothing lovely in the universe." (Philosopher Ammons)

It appeals to my sense of irony (since I find loveliness in the most unusual of places) and reminds me that no matter how hard you try, some people simply will never be pleased.
 

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From an unknown King patrolling the battlements of his besieged castle:
“That guy standing in my rose garden--put an arrow through him.”
 

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Kurt Vonnegut
 

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Another Dorothy Parker goodie:

"I've never been a millionaire, but I bet I'd be darling at it."
 

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"All fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it." Stephen King
 

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"The ability to simplify is to eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary may speak." Hans Hoffman.
 

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The first draft of anything is shit. - Earnest Hemingway

And if Earnest Hemingway could accept that, then...
 
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This one just popped up on my iGoogle homepage tonight. I immediately typed it up and saved it in a text file.

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be." - Edgar Allen Poe

 

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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties.

Bonnie Friedman
 
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