"The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space."

-- Julio Cortazar

#Space Quotes #Allies Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.”
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
“When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272
“Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.”
“If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.”
“The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.”
“There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.”
“Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.53

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