Advertisements for myself. And so on."The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."
--- Renata Adler, American Author"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."
--- Saul Bellow 1915-, American Novelist"Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion."
----Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, British Novelist"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
----Catherine Drinker Bowen 1897-1973, American Author"If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!" ----Jackie Collins American Author, Sister of Joan Collins
I'd like to meet:
Auctioneer: "Next up for auction, this pair of panties from a hooker." Quagmire: "Fifty bucks!" Auctioneer: "She had 9 STD's." Quagmire: "Forty bucks!" Auctioneer: "And she urinated in them." Quagmire: "Fifty bucks!""To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die." —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)Best pickup line? "What's a nice girl like you doing with a face like that?"Can You Please Come Crawl Out Your Window? By Bob Dylan.//He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks/
Preoccupied with his vengeance/
Cursing the dead that can't answer him back/
I'm sure that he has no intentions/
Of looking your way, unless it's to say/
That he needs you to test his inventions./Can you please crawl out your window?/
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you/
How can you say he will haunt you?/
You can go back to him any time you want to./He looks so truthful, is this how he feels/
Trying to peel the moon and expose it/
With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel/
If he needs a third eye he just grows it/
He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk/
Or pick it up after he throws it./Can you please crawl out your window?/
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you/
How can you say he will haunt you?/
You can go back to him any time you want to./Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed/
Are you frightened of the box you keep him in/
While his genocide fools and his friends rearrange/
Their religion of the little ten women/
That backs up their views but your face is so bruised/
Come on out the dark is beginning./Can you please crawl out your window?/
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you/
How can you say he will haunt you?/
You can go back to him any time you want to./Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work.One day an at home wife is alone and the doorbell rings.She opens it to a guy, "Hi, is Tony home?"The wife replies, "No, he went to the store, but you can wait here if you want."So they sit down and after a while of silence the friend says "You know Sara, you have the greatest breasts I have ever seen. I'd give you a hundred buck just to see one."Sara thinks about it for a second and figures, what the hell - a hundred bucks! She opens her robe and shows one to him for a few seconds. He promptly thanks her and throws a hundred bucks on the table. They sit there a while longer and guy then says "That was so amazing I've got to see both of them. I'll give you another 100 dollars if I could just see the both of them together."Sara amazed by the offer sits and thinks a bit about it and thinks, heck, why not? So she opens her robe and gives Chris a nice long chance to cop a look.A while later Tony arrives back home from the store. The wife goes up to him, "You know, your friend Chris came over."Tony thinks about it for a second and says, "Well did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"Cuban Mojito recipe.-the original authentic recipe from Havana Cuba-1 teaspoon powdered sugar,
Juice from 1 lime (2 ounces),
4 mint leaves,1 sprig of mint,
Havana Club white Rum (2 ounces),
2 ounces club soda.There are countless recipes for the Mojito (prounced moh-HEE-toh), but this version is for the one Hemingway himself enjoyed at the Mojito's place of birth: La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana, Cuba. If you are throwing a Cuban theme party (Havana night themed party), plan on serving mojitos.Place the mint leaves into a long mojito glass (often called a "collins" glass) and squeeze the juice from a cut lime over it. You'll want about two ounces of lime juice, so it may not require all of the juice from a single lime. Add the powdered sugar, then gently smash the mint into the lime juice and sugar with a muddler (a long wooden device pictured below, though you can also use the back of a fork or spoon if one isn't available). Add ice (preferably crushed) then add the rum and stir, and top off with the club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig.** Optional ** While the following isn't the authentic original Bodeguita del Medio Cuban recipe for a mojito, some people will take half of the juiced lime and cut into into four wedges to add to the glass. Another variation is to add Angostura bitters to cut the mojito's sweetness, which is a popular version in Havana hotels although not the true Bodeguita recipe. Some Cubans also use "guarapo" in place of the powdered sugar, which is a sugar cane syrup available in some supermarkets or online Latin grocery stores."Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."
---William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Paint
Music:
"Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power." ---H. R. Haweis"I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable." ---Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet"I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything."
---John Lennon 1940-1980, British Rock Musician"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously." ---Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Movies:
"A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
---Stanley Kubrick 1928-, American Screen Writer, Film Producer, and Director"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
---Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor"A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
---Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker"When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it."
---Tim Burton American Director
Television:
"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."
---Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author"So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life."
---Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
---T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic"There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."
---Ursula K. Le Guin 1929-, American Author"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
---Clive James 1939-, Australian-Born Writer, Satirist, Broadcaster, and Critic
Books:
"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
---Toni Morrison"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
---Edward P. Morgan"A dirty book is rarely dusty."
---Anonymous"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions."
---Anonymous
Heroes:
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
---Jean Genet 1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials."
---Gerald W. Johnson 1890-1980, American Author"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."
---Norman Mailer 1923-, American Author"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
---John Barth 1930-, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
