"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."

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John McGahern

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes

“When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.”
“It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press
“One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.”
“It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.”
“Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.”
“Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”
“I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.”
“I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.”

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