Or You Could Just Keep Pressing F5 - part fifteen

In preparing this post I found four quotes that I had duplicated in my list. It seems this thing has grown beyond practical wieldiness. Maybe I should consider better organization. But that seems too much like work….

Here’s a secret: Many of the quotes that I put in here come from the Writer’s Almanac, which comes to [one of] my email[s] every day and which I am usually days or weeks behind in reading.

I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy stealing gathering them!

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. ~ Anna Sewell

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ René Descartes

Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ~ John Fowles

Looking foolish does the spirit good. ~ John Updike

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. ~ Anatole France

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Give them pleasure — the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

Self-plagiarism is style. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ~ Clarence Darrow

There are many people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ~ Josh Billings

Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. ~ Josh Billings

When you grow up in a dysfunctional household, you quickly tune in to what’s going on under the surface. From age five or six, I was scanning, figuring out all the stuff not being discussed. ~ Sue Grafton

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish. ~ Terry Southern

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that it can be done at home. ~ Kaye Gibbons

Self-knowledge does not necessarily help a novelist. It helps a human being a great deal but novelists, as we know, are often appalling human beings. ~ Peter Carey

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style. ~ Fred Astaire

Physics is like sex … it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it. ~ Richard Feynman

The previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 395 quotes in rotation now and I’ve posted 300 of them in these entries.)