Laura Oliva Books: Memory

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Memory

Some anniversaries you don't want to remember, but know you can never forget.

"The world breaks everyone, and after, some are strong at the broken places."

-Ernest Hemingway

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." -Ursula K. LeGuin

"I can still taste the sin of you on my lips." -Nikki Andrews

"All evil is good become cancerous." -Isaac Asimov

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ” ― Elinor Glyn

"If you don't 'sing your world into being', no one else will." - Carolyn See

"It's not what you do. It's the way you do it—stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared." - Gypsy Rose Lee

“Technique in art has the same value as technique in love-making. On the one hand, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal, and on the other hand, so does heartless skill; what you want is passionate virtuosity.” – John Barth

"Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know." - Amy Lowell

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." ~Elmore Leonard

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." ~Mark Twain

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
- Charles Dickens

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs"
- Stephen King

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Memory

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