"The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate."

-- Paul Di Filippo

#Emotional Quotes #Tone Quotes #Hot Quotes

“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”
“Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.”
“The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seenâ€¦you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.”
“I feel hurt or attacked, jealousy or fear, what works for me is thinking of life as an adventure. This way, I remember that all these feelings or situations are part of a greater whole and that they need to be there to make life exactly what it is.”
“I'm playin' the music I like.”
“War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.”
“When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.”

Source : "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.
“We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.”

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