"No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles"

-- Aaron Allston

#Violence Quotes #Wedges Quotes

“Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain Iâ€™m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.”
“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.”
“We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.”

Source : Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.
“What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away ...”
“In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also, all the musical references in the book from the Peoples Temple one and only album to Luther Vandross.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”
“Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.”

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