"The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him."

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Thomas Carlyle

“Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
“Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.”
“This means nothing,â€ she said. â€œLess than nothing,â€ he lied. â€œIâ€™ll hate myself later.â€ â€œI hate myself now.”
“To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.”
“When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.”
“What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.”
“I want more out of life than I've gotten.”
“You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.”

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