"It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine."

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Adrian Hodges

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“Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.”

Source : 'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
“I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”
“[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.”
“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”

Source : "The King Must Die". Book by Mary Renault, 1958.
“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”
“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”
“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag
“If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.”

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