H. G. Bissinger Quotes
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
Quotes to Explore
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
