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If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

— Arthur M. Jolly interview with Write On Online (2009)

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Marriage is the safe harbor men proffer from a tempest they themselves conjure into creation.

The Lady Demands Satisfaction (2018)

A servant is the true reflection of his master.

The Lady Demands Satisfaction (2018)

One of those monstrosities that nature so cruelly inflicts upon her world, like a two headed calf or a servant with ginger eyebrows.

The Lady Demands Satisfaction (2018)

She's the goddess of all things sweaty and sticky.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Every Battle, Every War (2007)

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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