"I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one"

-- Dennis Prager

#Ideas Quotes #Creating Quotes #Rational Quotes

“There's backlash about everything I do.”
“It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.”
“Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.”
“I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.”
“Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.”
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
“Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”
“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. Itâ€™s perceived as an accolade to be published as a â€˜literaryâ€™ writer, but, actually, itâ€™s pompous and itâ€™s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. Iâ€™d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”

Source : "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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