M. John Harrison Quotes

A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

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  Imogen Cunningham
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• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

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• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

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• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

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• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

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• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

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• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

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• In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

  

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• Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

  

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• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
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