"Good ideas are often murdered by better ones."

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Source : "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

Roddy Doyle

#Ideas Quotes #Good Ideas Quotes

“You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.”
“I don't like hype cluttering art.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.”
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.”
“There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.”
“The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?”
“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.262, Routledge

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