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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.


Stephen Graham Jones

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MARTHA GRAHAM The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
COLLIER GRAHAM Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
GRAHAM GREENE There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.
GRAHAM GREEN Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE Good people are always so sure they're right.
BARBARA GRAHAM The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
KATHARINE GRAHAM No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our chil...
BILLY GRAHAM The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our m...
LINDSEY GRAHAM I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That...
KAT GRAHAM The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for i...
KAT GRAHAM I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN