
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are ‘I don’t care what happens to these people.
– Charlie Jane Anders
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- For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. – Doug Larsen
- When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos. – Charlie Jane Anders
- Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together? – Charlie Jane Anders
- A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn’t know it yet. – Charlie Jane Anders
- Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward. – Charlie Jane Anders
- That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. – Charlie Jane Anders
- What was worse, being crazy or being evil? – Charlie Jane Anders
- Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other. – Charlie Jane Anders
- Knowledge is justice – Charlie Jane Anders
- When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. – Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire – Charlie Jane Anders
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
- one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. – Patricia Highsmith
- What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
- [I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, -œAesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, – Ross Wetzsteon
- He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an ‘artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf – Christopher Clark
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. – Jane Austen
- What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
- Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours. – Pulkit Patel
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. – Amit Ray
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- The only Christian work is good work well done. – Dorothy L Sayers
- The only Christian work is good work well done. – Dorothy L Sayers
- Speech is the deadliest of revealers.’ – Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table – Agatha Christie
- Self Hate: The deadliest ‘dis-ease’ experienced by wounded souls. – TF Hodge
- There are demons within. And they’re the deadliest kind. – Karren Renz Sea
- A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over – Ryan Leonard
- Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything. – Bryant McGill
- The world’s deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me. – Marie Lu
- By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- Change happens very slow and very sudden. – Dorothy Bryant
- Yeah,- said Harry. -œNo more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly . – JK Rowling
- Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours. – Amit Kalantri
- Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious. – Amanda Mosher
- Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters. – Daya Kudari
