Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.
Connie WillisWhen you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.
Connie WillisThe reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.
Connie WillisThe entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.
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