"I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject."

-- Hal Duncan

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.”
“The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.”
“Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?”
“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”
“I think war is a dangerous place.”
“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”

Source : "Botswana Blues: Orgies of talk in Africa" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. June 02, 2003.
“I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.”

Source : John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”
“I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob [Dylan] is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.”

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