"I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate."

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Source : John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.167, Macmillan

John Scalzi

#Real Quotes #Fate Quotes #Care Quotes

“I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.”
“If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.”
“Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.”

Source : Angus Wilson (1962). “The seven deadly sins”, Beaufort Books
“It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.”
“I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.”
“One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.”
“I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.”
“I stay dipped like the first day of school.”

Source : Song: MCF, Album: The Pillage

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