"The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter."

-- Nicholas Royle

#Ideas Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“it's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy ...”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
“Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.”
“Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction. It allows your unconscious mind to work toward the image you have created, the goal. It's about understand the life you want to live, and seeing it unfold before you.”
“I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.”

Source : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
“I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.”
“I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.”
“You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.”

Source : "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.
“The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.”

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