"Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader."

-- David Gerrold

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“Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill”
“When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.”

Source : Helen Schucman, Scribe (2008). “A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume”, p.280, Foundation for Inner Peace
“What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.”
“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that childâ€™s sake.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press
“The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.”
“With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.”
“One of the most valuable things you can do to create higher levels of trust is to trust others more. Don't wait for them to prove themselves to you. Trust them.”

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