"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."

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

Bernard Cornwell

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“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.”
“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”
“World is suddener than we fancy it.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”

Source : "Guru Granth Sahib", p. 83,
“There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behindâ€¦ She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. â€˜Donâ€™t be ashamed,' Po whispered. â€˜Your sadness is dear to me. Donâ€™t be frightened. I wonâ€™t die, Katsa. I wonâ€™t die, and weâ€™ll meet again.”
“In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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