"Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan."

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Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.1175, Simon and Schuster

Scott Westerfeld

#Important Quotes #Warfare Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

Source : Robert Burton (1800). “The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up”, p.12
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
“Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.”

Source : Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.200, Cowley Publications
“I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.122, Yearling
“Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.”
“...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.”

Source : Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”
“I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.”

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