"The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started."

-- William Gibson

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.”
“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.”
“A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.”
“Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.”
“I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.”
“Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.”
“Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person”

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