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Quotes About Association

You got your iPad?" "Does the Tin Man have a sheet metal cock?
~ John Sandford
major country-western nightclub, one
~ John Sandford
Crow was getting a contact high from the dope; either that, or from the jambalaya.
~ John Sandford
a political line that sounds like the party's. I thought of you and your boys, first thing. A few other people
~ John Sandford
cabin, they could hear
~ John Sandford
Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.
~ John Scalzi
An alliance with terrible people." "Really nice people don't usually accrue power.
~ John Scalzi
I had been getting sidetracked by the idea that an entire fearsome race of aliens had given themselves goofy names because of the names I had thoughtlessly given two of them more than a decade before;
~ John Scalzi
Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was
~ John Scalzi
Word is that you're not all that popular on the committee. The word 'asshole' gets attached to you a lot." "I'm just being me.
~ John Scalzi
To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to me startling. I can't even imagine the forest colors when I am not seeing them. I wondered whether constant association could cause inattention, and asked a native New Hampshire woman about it. She said that autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate. 'It is a glory,' she said, 'and can't be remembered, so that it always comes as a surprise.
~ John Steinbeck
When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco "the City". Of course it was the only city we knew, but I still think of it as the City, and so does everyone else who has ever associated with it. A strange and exclusive work is "city". Besides San Francisco, only small sections of London and Rome stay in the mind as the City. New Yorkers say they are going to town. Paris has no title but Paris. Mexico City is the Capital. p197
~ John Steinbeck
When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that they are similar and from this tendency we create magics and store them for retelling.
~ John Steinbeck
You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?
~ John Steinbeck
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material…..
~ John Steinbeck
Even Juan laughed then. Everyone laughed. And suddenly the bus was not full of strangers. Some chemical association was formed. Norma laughed hysterically. All the tension of the morning came out in her laughter.
~ John Steinbeck
Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?
~ John Steinbeck
By the 1920s, the skyline had replaced the Statue of Liberty as the symbol of the city. New Yorkers pointed to the skyline as their pride and joy
~ John Tauranac
she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy.  Yet
~ Unknown
Seeing a Fassbinder retrospective is better than drugs, liquor and sex put together.
~ John Waters
R)arity is not a quality of notable interest, it is merely a state.
~ John Wright
You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
~ J. K. Rowling
The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.
~ Robert Briffault
42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.
~ Douglas Adams