"People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose."

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Source : Harry Turtledove (2008). “The United States of Atlantis”, p.145, Penguin

Harry Turtledove

#People Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Stubborn Quotes

“When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.”
“I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.”
“People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.”
“It was probably when I had a game point at 3-1 in the first set and it was a really long point, and I did a passing shot after a huge rally. Maybe from then I was like, 'Okay, that's not normal.'”
“Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.”
“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”
“The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.”
“I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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