"The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Jennings

#Vision Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I'm kind of a globetrotter. I've been traveling since I was born and living in different locations.”
“All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin
“It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.”
“Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.”
“What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.”
“I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in problem solving. Every act of discovery in writing involves a process of figuring out why I'm not seeing what I need to see. Niggling feelings, discomforts, a sense that you've forgotten or overlooked something, a sudden curiosity about what if here? - these are priceless. They are the bases of problems and lead the way.”
“The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.”
“I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.”

Source : "Reagan sons surprised by outpouring for father", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.

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