GABBY
"You know it's bad when your imaginary
friends make
fun of you."
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
"He is standing. And he is standing as
absolutely and definitely as if he were
sitting."
JULIAN GRENFELL
--British poet
"I adore war. It's like a big picnic
without the
objectlessness of a picnic. I've never
been so well
or happy. No one grumbles at one for
being
dirty."
"One love[s] one's fellow man so much
more when bent
on killing him."
BEN HECHT
"Hate is not an emotion which one wears
on one's
sleeve. It is a soul. When it enters a
man he may
live on, he may laugh, work, and go
about, and there
will be no difference to those who are
his friends;
but his soul has only one color, his
nights have
only one dream."--the Marvelous
Sarastro, The
Shadow
O. HENRY
"Turn up the lights, I don't want to go
home in the
dark." (last words, d. 1910)
CHRIS HUBBOCK
--newscaster
"And now, in keeping with Channel 40's
policy of
always bringing you the lastest in blood
and guts,
in living color, you're about to see
another
first--an attempted suicide." (Shot
herself during a
broadcast, d. 1970)
JAMES JOYCE
"Does nobody understand?" (last words,
d.
1941)
STEPHEN KING
"In a way, editing and rewriting are the
most
fascinating parts of the job, because
that's where
the final changes--usually small but
often
crucial--take place and the picture
really comes
into focus."--Samuel Landry, "Umney's
Last Case",
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
CAPTAIN LEETHAM
"...The trench was a horrible sight.
The dead were
stretched out on one side, on top of
each other six
feet high. To do one's duty, one was
actually
climbing over corpses in every position
and when one
trod on human flesh it sent a shudder
down one's
spine."
