"Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we â€˜mustâ€™ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement"

-- Gilles Deleuze

#Communication Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.”
“Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.”
“Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.”

Source : "Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume?". Interview with Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. February 24, 1997.
“One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.”
“Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.”
“When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.”

Source : Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.215, Penguin
“friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.”
“Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.”

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