"Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Fighting Quotes #Cold Quotes

“From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.”
“I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.”
“True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“No 'mise en scÃ¨ne' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scÃ¨ne' turns into a sign, a clichÃ©, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.”
“One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.”
“The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.”
“Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.”

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