"I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'"

-- Emo Philips

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“It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.”
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“Iacta est alea. The die is cast.”
“I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.”
“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."”
“I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his favorite food is, or most traumatic memory, etc. - that's always seemed like a fraudulent way of assembling a fictional person.”
“Home is a complex and resonant idea.”

Source : "A Book is a Machine for Stories". Interview with Martin Riker, logger.believermag.com. April 22, 2015.
“There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games.”

Source : "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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