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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

— Cormac McCarthy

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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

There's no such thing as life without bloodshed.

The world has created no living thing it does not intend to destroy.

Stella Marris (2022)

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Blood Meridian (1985)

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Cities of the Plain (1998)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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