"So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us."

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Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan

Gene Wolfe

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“I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.”

Source : "Exclusive: Stream ‘The Rover’ score, plus a Q&A with its director and composer". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. June 27, 2014.
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
“Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.”
“I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.”
“More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger players to develop in those key depth positions. Younger players are more susceptible to streaks than veterans. They go up, they go down.”
“Fashion is a trend, style is within a person”

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