"Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined."

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Paolo Bacigalupi

#Hands Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.”
“The question of souls is oldâ€”we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.”
“A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”
“Exercise for the joy of feeling good and getting better. Eat right with the intention of fueling your body with the things it needs to perform.”
“All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.”
“When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.”
“I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.”

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