23
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic—in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea—know to medical science is work.
—Thomas Szasz
24
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
—Colette
25
Because if you are like most people, then like most people you don’t know you are like most people.
—Daniel Gilbert
26
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on it.
—Marcel Proust
27
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.
—Hart Crane
28
As a writer I believe that all the basic human truths are known. And what we try to do as best we can is come at these truths from our own unique angle to reilluminate those truths in a hopefully different way.
—William Goldman
29
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not the anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
—Buddha
30
The moment a writer picks up his pen, he is no longer himself or entirely of this world.
—Richard Selzer
31
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
—Steve Martin
32
We just can’t make the best of a fate until it is inescapably, inevitably, and irrevocably ours.
—Daniel Gilbert 33
When we open our eyes each morning, it is upon a world we have spent a lifetime learning to see. We are not given the world: we make our world through incessant experience, categorization, memory, reconnection.
—Oliver Sacks
34
Who controls the society’s memory controls its will.
—Phillip J. Hilts
35
And, of course, any writer who pays attention to critics is an ass.
—John D. MacDonald
36
Words are loaded pistols.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
37
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
—Eric Hoffer
38
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
—Walter Payton
39
No right or wrong storytelling answer exists. Ever.
—William Goldman
40
If it was easy everyone would do it.
—Billie Jean King
41
Storytellers have been getting us through the night for centuries. Hollywood is the current campfire.
—Gloria Steinham
42
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
—George Santayana
43
Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.
—Ernest Weekley
44
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
—Francois duc de la Rouchefoucauld
45
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
—William James
JOKE OF THE DAY
Why does Charlie Sheen refer to his nostrils as “The Olsen Twins”?
Because both pairs are snotty as hell and filled with cocaine.
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