"No decent-minded person would know how to spell ipecacuanha out of his own head."
Tag: quotes
tenses: a conversation with myself
"I should just write poems," you say, staring at the gloomy wasteland of your decaying future.
Quotables – Fascinating Work, Slaving Away and Poetical Landscapes
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it. - - - I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and… Continue reading Quotables – Fascinating Work, Slaving Away and Poetical Landscapes
Murderers, Dead Bodies and Overthrowing the Government – Quotables
I went to America ... and read twelve books of the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters (as you do). I wrote down several amusing quotations. (I would be sitting in a chair and giggling. Yes, people noticed. No, I didn't mind. My humour was tickled, you see, and when my humour is tickled nothing… Continue reading Murderers, Dead Bodies and Overthrowing the Government – Quotables
Quotables – Write Until the Cogs Mesh
From experience, I knew what to do. Write. Write anything. Bad sentences, meaningless sentences, anything to get the mind fixed again to that sheet of paper and oblivious of the 'real' world. Write until the words begin to make sense, the cogs mesh, the wheels start to turn, the creaking movement quickens and becomes a… Continue reading Quotables – Write Until the Cogs Mesh
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