"I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Thinking Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Might Quotes

“Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.”

Source : Matthew Hale, Gilbert Burnet (1700). “Contemplations, Moral and Divine: In Two Parts”, p.289
“It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.”
“The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.”
“It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.”
“Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.”
“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”
“You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.”
“Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.”

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