"It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another."

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Source : Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.24, Spectra

Dan Simmons

#Talking Quotes #Survival Quotes #May Quotes

“The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.”
“I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.418, Rowman & Littlefield
“For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.”
“The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.”
“For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173
“First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.”
“Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.”

Source : "Built to Last". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.
“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”

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