Quotes
Authors
Noel Gayler
"It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space..." --
Noel Gayler
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“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.”
“We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.”
“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
“Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.”
“Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.”
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
“Run from a knife and rush a gun.”