"I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction."

-- Ned Beauman

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #Dynamics Quotes

“I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.”
“I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.”
“Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.”
“Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.”
“You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.”
“Perhaps itâ€™s when you come to the realization that the point of life isnâ€™t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.”
“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.”
“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.”

Source : Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,

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