"Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too."

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Source : Matthew Quick (2012). “Boy21”, p.157, Hachette UK

Matthew Quick

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.”
“I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.”
“[Bebop is] Chinese music.”
“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”
“I have always been accused of taking the things I love â€“ football, of course, but also books and records â€“ much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic â€“ maybe itâ€™s those voices I can hear when I write. â€˜Youâ€™re a WANKER, X.â€™ â€˜The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.”
“I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.”
“In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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