Quotes
Authors
Alasdair MacLean
"I'm a huge Boards Of Canada fan. They're my favorite contemporary band. The interesting thing about Boards Of Canada is, they use analog and digital recording techniques, and nobody really knows how they get their sound. But I think that very warm, enveloping analog sound." --
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Alasdair MacLean
#Thinking Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
#My Favorite Quotes
“Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.”
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“Love one another (His last words)”
“Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
Source : 'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10
“I told (my wife) that there's a three-month aftermath that you better be able to handle, because it's real. I think the worst thing we could do is push it away and say, 'Hey, it's not happening. We don't have time for this,' because we worked so hard to get to that point. ... But the reality is (our opponents the next year) are going to come after us.”
“One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.”
“Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-”
“Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.”