“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.”

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist

“When you are a soldier, either you surrender or you are killed. But you don't flee.”

Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre

Mobutu, vowing to resist the Kabila rebellion. Meredith, p. 535

“It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

“When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.”

Pauline Kael book Going Steady

Going Steady (1969), Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)

“Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious!”

Doug Stanhope (1967) American stand-up comedian, actor, and author

Deadbeat Hero (2004)

“I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (…) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

The Curse of Chalion (2000)

“Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.”

Irving Thalberg (1899–1936) American film producer

Quoted by Norman J. Zierold in The Moguls (New York: Coward-McCann, 1969). Also quoted as "Credit you give yourself is not worth having." Thalberg never took an onscreen credit in films he produced; MGM gave him a screen credit for The Good Earth (1937), released after his death.

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't”

Thomas Keneally (1935) Australian novelist

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”

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