Robert Newton Peck quotes
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“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”
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“My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.”
-- Robert Newton PeckSource : Robert Newton Peck (2010). “A Day No Pigs Would Die”, p.15, Laurel Leaf
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“I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.”
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“A plot is two dogs and one bone.”
-- Robert Newton PeckSource : Robert Newton Peck (1988). “Secrets of successful fiction”, Accord Communications Ltd
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“A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.”
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“Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.”
-- Robert Newton PeckSource : Robert Newton Peck (1983). “Fiction is folks: how to create unforgettable characters”
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“I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.”
-- Robert Newton Peck
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“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan
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“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988
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Source : Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.42, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
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“You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.”
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