"I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb."

-- Gardner Dozois

#Revenge Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.”
“It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony.”

Source : "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, p. 46; from the "Autobiography", 1960.
“If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.”
“It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.”
“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017
“It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.”
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press
“Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.”

Source : Douchan Gersi (1987). “Explorer”, Tarcher

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