"Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them."

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Source : Jack Campbell (2008). “The Lost Fleet: Valiant”, p.184, Penguin

Jack Campbell

#People Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising”
“It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
“I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.”
“The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.”
“The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.”
“Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.”
“Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.”
“Baldy McNosehair looks dead sexy in a miniskirt!”

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