"A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken"

-- Ian Mcewan

#Stories Quotes #Gestures Quotes #Made Quotes

“When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.”
“A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.”

Source : 'Cyrano de Bergerac' (1897) act 1, sc. 1
“Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.”
“It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.”
“If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.”
“History doesn't pass the dishes again.”
“But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.”
“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”

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