"Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,"

-- Ian Mcewan

#Narrative Quotes #Information Quotes #Withholding Information Quotes

“What does it say? Does he love you madly?”

Source : Jessica Day George (2011). “Princess of the Midnight Ball”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.”
“Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.”
“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.”
“Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.”
“It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny”

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1957). “Life: an introduction to biology”
“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”

Source : Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin
“Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.”

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