"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves."

Source : "On Bullshit". Book by Harry Frankfurt, 2005.

Harry Frankfurt

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“I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.”
“These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs. A good short story asks a question that can't be answered in simple terms. And even if we come up with some understanding, years later, while glancing out of a window, the story still has the potential to return, to alter right there in our mind and change everything.”

Source : Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison (2003). “The Best American Short Stories 2003”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."”

Source : "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.
“I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.”
“There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.”

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“When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.”
“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.”
“All my works are games, serious game.”

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