"While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find."

-- Elissa Schappell

#Men Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Ghost Stories Quotes

“The good thing is that The Human League never really wanted to be in a pop group. We never wanted to be famous. We just liked the music. And I think that's kept us grounded. We're not interested in the celebrity side of anything. We just like getting on stage and doing what we're good at.”
“I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
“Move too quickly and time will pass you by.”
“To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.”
“The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1961). “Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, p.2, MIT Press
“I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.”

Source : "Producer Hutch Parker Talks the Quicksilver Sequence, the Possibility of Crossing Over with Marvel, Sentinels, and More on the Set of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST". Interview, collider.com. March 3, 2014.
“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

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