“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.” MenWorldLittlesNaturalRoomsDevelopmentTeethNakedThrownFreakBubblesCoveringSkullsPudding Author:William Golding
“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.” FeelsEndsNaturalSentencesTeethProseTapePullingFluidPouringRight Words Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.” HumansLooksRealDreamRealityUniverseLanguageNaturalAcceptingEvidenceTeethTendenciesDamnAspireSelectionSpeculationFillingNatural SelectionPavementExchangingAccepting RealityDamn GoodFilling In Author:Dan Harmon