"As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots."

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Source : 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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“What I'm talking about is pre-suasion, directing their minds to the moment before they experience the content. There's this interesting study. A guy goes to a shopping mall in France. And he tries to get women's phone numbers as they pass various shops, so he could call for a date. But in neither of those cases was he very successful. He only got a number 13 percent of the time. But there was one kind of shop that doubled his success rate when women were passing it, a flower shop. Why? Because flowers put women in the mind-set of romance.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.”

Source : "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.
“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press
“'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.”
“Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.”
“A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.”
“I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.”
“Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.”

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