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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
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“Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.”
― If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
― If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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