"In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if he doesn't like the artwork. Once you buy it for the artwork, you hope that the story will also be good."

-- Stan Lee

#Book Quotes #Important Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.”
“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”
“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.”
“Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â— that's not bad politics, that's robbery.”
“Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.”
“We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.”

Source : Roger C. Schank (1995). “Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence”, p.10, Northwestern University Press
“It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.”
“I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like, "Oh, the musical language, which has been, in the past, only available to a scarce few at the top of the tower, is now wide open." Now people's ears are becoming more amenable to fake strings - I think this is great!”

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