Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
Tom Holt
Quotes to Explore
When you're rich you don't write checks.
Randy Moss
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams
Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
Natasha Trethewey
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
L. Todd Rose
America's creative approach to solving the problems the country is faced with, its openness and open-mindedness which make it possible to unleash the potential of the people. I believe that largely due to these qualities America has made such tremendous strides in its development.
Vladimir Putin
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
Barney Greenway
Benediction
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
Tom Holt