I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo—people smiled plastic smiles, told one—upmanship stories with phony self—deprecation, then half—listened with painted—on sincerity to the one—upmanship rebuttals. Mannequins. Robots. Androids. Pseudo—people laboring in the vineyards of pseudo—intellectualism to gather the bitter grapes of self—aggrandizement. . Walt Shiel
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
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William Goldman
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Leo Tolstoy
We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again,...
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Tim Farrington
She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough...
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Jodi Picoult
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
More Quotes By Walt Shiel
I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo—people smiled plastic smiles, told one—upmanship stories with phony self—deprecation, then half—listened with painted—on sincerity to the one—upmanship rebuttals. Mannequins. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Robots. Androids. Pseudo—people laboring in the vineyards of pseudo—intellectualism to...
Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.
