"All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning."

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Source : Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

James Clavell

#Stories Quotes #Middle Quotes

“I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.”
“It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo, the pitch will fall, and vice versa. So you need to adjust these with your fingers.”
“I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.”

Source : "One last thing... Sam Trammell". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2011.
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
“Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.”

Source : Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press
“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
“On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.”
“In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.”

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