"I've been taking longer to write stories lately."

-- Greg Egan

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other's dresses. Fear's the only issue the Republican Party has. Vote for them, or the terrorists will win. That's not what Reagan was about. I hate to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that's slipping away.”
“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”
“As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.”

Source : Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.302, Avalon Travel
“Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code”
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
“I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.”

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