This Book is Not FOR SALE Quotes

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If you’re wondering how I’ll ask you how you’re doing, the answer is silently and invisibly. My love is often overlooked, like a midget behind a counter.

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Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.

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I loved all the words in his book—just not in the order he arranged them, or the frequency with which he used them. To improve his work, I’d combine the words in a different way to form new sentences and new ideas. But other than hating the whole...

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Her mouth contorted, and the wrinkles around her lips were like the dunes of a frosted cupcake. And I just wanted to lick her living word machine (mouth).

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Your words are energy. If you don’t speak them, then you will drink them. Swallow that thought, but do not gargle it. 

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Words failed me at the precise moment I thought I was passing my vocabulary test, and I can’t tell you how that made me feel. At the time, I thought I felt, well, I couldn’t tell you without my cheat sheet. What seemed obviate to me then, now see...

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If love fell in love with another word, do you think that word would smell, taste, and rhyme with it? I think so, and I think that word is jambalaya, but maybe I’m pronouncing love wrong.

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I don’t mince words—I mincemeat. And combining these two I’m writing a cookbook called, “101 Pies I’ve Never Eaten—And Neither Should You.

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Certain words roll off the tongue like frozen balls of saliva. Words like sure, positive, and definite—you know, words that are certain.

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In hospitality, people vacation where you live. And so when I stay home from work it’s like a double vacation.

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You make me sick. I think I’ll have to call out of work on your account. Or have that account closed.

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This world is nothing more than fresh white underwear, and I’m going to leave my mark on it.

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I saw myself in a piece of glass that wasn’t a mirror. Was that my doppelganger or my clone? Who was that? Who am I? Maybe if I hadn’t been acting like a reverse Peeping Tom, trying to look out into the world, this existential dilemma wouldn’t ...

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I want to write an unreliable narrator. In fact, he’ll be so unreliable that I’m not even sure he’ll show up to narrate.

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A pen is like a switchblade you can actually write with—and pull off a successful mugging with.

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I don't sit on material like a sofa. I also don't sit on material like a sofa. I’m a stand on the couch kind of writer.

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The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

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I meant to spend the day writing, but instead I spent the afternoon cleaning out my belly button. Historians will thank me one day.

This Book is Not FOR SALE