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While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
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While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
One can say everything best over a meal.
"Author? Author? Did you write these legs?"
'Yes."
"Well, I don't like them. I don't like'em at all at all. I could had written better legs myself."
The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people, they're ravenous, they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
A distinct throat. Which breathes. A head: small, smaller than a flower. With eyes and with lips. Lips more slender than light; a smile how carefully and slowly made, a smile made entirely of dream. Eyes deeper than Spring. Eyes darker than Spring, more new. These, these are the further miracles, the breasts. Thighs. The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.
I love storytelling.