"Thereâ€™s no way to really preserve a person when theyâ€™ve gone and thatâ€™s because whatever you write down itâ€™s not the truth, itâ€™s just a story. Stories are all weâ€™re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles"

-- Steven Hall

#Clever Quotes #Writing Quotes #Together Quotes

“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.”
“We're going right down the toilet, and it's a made-in-China toilet. I teach MBAs. And I noticed, starting a few years after China joined the World Trade Organization, that a lot of my students were no longer employed. They were still coming to get their MBA, but they'd lost their jobs.”
“People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.”

Source : "The Man Behind Scientology" by Thomas C. Tobin, www.sptimes.com. October 25, 1998.
“The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.”
“I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.”
“The goal isnâ€™t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasnâ€™t before.”
“I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish”

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