"Music, the knife without a hilt,"

--

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six”, p.454, Penguin UK

Dorothy Dunnett

“The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.”
“Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.”
“I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.”
“You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.”
“Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!”
“It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage
“If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.”
“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?”

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