"It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books."

-- Michael Swanwick

#Book Quotes #Principles Quotes #Ends Quotes

“We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.”
“When you're tired of what you got, try me”
“Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.”
“I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser”
“To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith”
“India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.”
“Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word”
“Steve has a reality distortion field.â€ When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. â€œIn his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when heâ€™s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.”

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