"A story is not only meaning, it's music as well."

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Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Wells Quotes

“We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.”

Source : Dean Radin (2013). “Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities”, p.240, Deepak Chopra
“Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.”
“Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.”
“That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can get a bit nervous while I'm speaking, but I love to touch others with my message. TV hosting with a teleprompter is also a comfort zone. I love to nail the copy quickly with the right expression and facial expression. Delivery is key!”
“Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names â€¦Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.”

Source : "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.
“The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.”
“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing
“I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.”

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