"Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Planning Quotes

“Populism is dangerous.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.”
“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

Source : The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA
“We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.”
“My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others.Â For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles].Â Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014
“O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!”

Source : William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.79, Lulu.com
“What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”

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