"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

-- Louise Brown

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does â€“ Iâ€™m a lousy guitarist.”
“England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.”
“Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see”
“I still feel like a nerd.”
“A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.”
“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.”

Source : "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.
“Where you have friends you should not go to inns.”

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