The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no reponsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap. Then you finish of as an orgasm !!!Amen!!! Awomen ...
-In George Constanza's words
Authorsden Mentor: My advice: write until your fingers bleed to staunch a wounded heart. Truth and beauty is all we know, and need to know. Write what you know. A thousand rejection slips do not mean failure. 1942-2005: Gerald Grimmett (in memory of)
Literature & Art Across Frontiers: In the famous words of some past film reviewer: I laughed. I cried.
The first clue was my handwriting on the stamped envelope. They use your own postage to deliver the bad news. A slip of blue paper confirmed my suspicions. Thank you for your submission. We are sorry that it does not meet our editorial needs at this time. The Editors
Rejections are hard enough to take, it's even more dispiriting to be turned down by a form letter.
I've got half a mind to send a boilerplate reply of my own: Thank you for your rejection. I'm sorry that it does not defeat my literary dreams at this time. The Writer.R
Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened. Cora Harvey Armstrong
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• · · Mark Latham and his unruly Labor mob are not the only ones enduring the thrills and spills of his leadership. It has also been a roller-coaster ride for those in the business of bringing out books about the Opposition Leader.
During Latham's honeymoon period last year there were six on the go, with two sympathetic biographies out before the election disaster. But another one, by a former Herald journalist, Bernard Lagan, begun before Latham became leader, has become a political thriller.
"It's a book in search of an ending," Lagan said amid this week's feverish speculation about Latham's future. "We don't know what the end is going to be."
The project has dragged on a lot longer than he expected when he set out to tell the inside story of Latham's ascendancy.
At least his publisher, Allen & Unwin, is patient. Until we know what's happening, to some degree it's very hard for us to be committed to a publishing date, said the editorial manager, Rebecca Kaiser Ach, The never-ending story [Many publishers never see the irony in this saying: If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of others. Bobby Slayton]
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• · · · · · Good childhood traditions of High Tatra Mountain remembered: Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement that Oxford University is to torture religious people in the name of science, news reaches us that researchers at Hull University have been dragging unfortunate students up mountains and making them answer questions while putting their hands in buckets of cold water. Cold baths help sweatiness and stress, say researchers ; We do not recommend you start dressing up The modern Scotsman the lovechild of Iceberg B***