"The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means."

-- Julio Cortazar

#Mean Quotes #Might Quotes #Machines Quotes

“There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.”
“This world has need of song and sword.”
“There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.”
“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.”
“People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.”
“Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.”

Source : Song: Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
“I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.”

Source : Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”

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