"Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his wordy sentences: "When someone expends the least amount of motion on a given action, that's grace." The short story, by definition, embodies this notion of grace, because it requires such forceful compression to achieve its effects."

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Catherine Brady

#Advice Quotes #Grace Quotes #Stories Quotes

“But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I want people to talk more. I mean, I watch Game of Thrones and there's all sorts of crazy nudity in it...and very little of which I can justify, except that it's in a titillating and somewhat exploitational manner, but I don't really feel like that's a subject that people are interested in because it's the same news story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.”
“Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.”

Source : "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.
“Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.”
“The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.”
“God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2010). “Harvest”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
“We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.”

Source : "A Scientist Ponders Faith". Saturday Review, 3, January 1959. "The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition". Book by F. A. Hayek, edited by ‎Ronald Hamowy, p. 77, 2013.

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