"I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book."

-- Scarlett Thomas

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“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et FunÃ¨bre".”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Nick Park, film-maker". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2009.
“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”
“Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust theyÂ develop around each other.”
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”

Source : Dissenting, Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co., 335 U.S. 600, 1949.
“The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.”
“In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.”

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