"The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though."

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Source : "Voyage Across the Stars".

David Drake

#Use Quotes #Answers Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Sometimes that's a lot to ask, so I'm not going to pressure them into being at a certain stage. As a coach and a teacher I learned a long time ago you've got to bring them along, and then when they're ready they'll show what they can do. You push, you prod, you pat and you do the other things that everybody does in teaching, and it's amazing how our guys over the years have kind of stepped forward and picked up and filled that void.”
“She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.”
“Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.”
“I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.”
“He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.”
“Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.”
“I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.”
“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”

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