Al Purdy Quotes

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

I think America, really, is over.

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.

For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

I'm pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I've spent time in Germany and now I'm in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

Obviously, after the match your fans come up to you and really look but to you but you don't get too much recognition around town for playing for FC Dallas.

I'm just trying to get as good as I can get, I am still young but there is always room to learn so I spend a lot of time watching players in other leagues to get better.

I also think that Germany helped me with my aggressiveness.

I would say that my strength is my speed and my ability to win head balls.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

I love, I absolutely, love the Office and Curb your Enthusiasm. Those are just classic shows.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood

All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

He was always mindful of keeping his spirits in check lest they soar unreasonably high.

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

This is me figuring good behavior is for someone much younger." --Kestrel

Taking advantage of me in my sleep, archangel?” --Gin

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper - 'Breathe Me

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

One chapter of your life is over. The rest of your story is up to you. Get started!

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

I have wrote my name in hell, ” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me!

Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.