"The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other catâ€™s mat is a story."

-- John le Carre

#Writing Quotes #Cat Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Source : A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley
“I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.”
“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!”
“Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.”

Source : Julian May (2013). “A Pliocene Companion”, p.4, Pan Macmillan
“When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.”
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.”

Source : Speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1842.
“I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.”
“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “Close Kin: Book II -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.16, Macmillan

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