"It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak."

-- Walter Jon Williams

#Jobs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Tough Quotes

“Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.
“But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.”
“A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.”
“If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.”
“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”

Source : Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”
“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.”

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