"Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people."

-- Bryce Courtenay

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“You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.”
“There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.”
“It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.”
“We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.”
“The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.”
“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
“Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

Source : William Gibson (2008). “The Miracle Worker”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

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