"Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me."

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Source : James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.124, Open Road Media

James Blish

#Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes #Agents Quotes

“I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.”
“Always destroy what is in you.”
“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”
“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.”

Source : "Establishing a Food Forest". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“I don't usually read reviews.”
“At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith. Faith is a strange and wonderful thing. You come up to a kind of wall of unknowing and instead of turning back in despair you leap over it into something else. The Church isn't why I'm a writer, but it's probably a part of it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.”

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