Mike Pohjola quotes

Mike Pohjola quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.”
-- Mike Pohjola

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“Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.”
-- Mike Pohjola

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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
“I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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