"...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness"

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Julian Barnes

#Depth Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #God Knows Quotes

“It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.”
“Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.”
“The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.”
“You donâ€™t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.”
“I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.”

Source : Playboy magazine, February 1972.
“Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.”
“The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”
“What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.”

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