"Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."

-- E. M. Forster

#Character Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.”
“People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.26
“I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.”
“I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.”

Source : Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.323, Oldcastle Books
“You can never turn your back on the ocean.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.”

Source : Damian Conway (2005). “Perl Best Practices”, p.153, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they are corrupters, not edifiers. The desire to be seen to be virtuous, to make a positive contribution, is a deleterious symptom of professionalization. Philosophy's social utility is an ersatz for its duty to mount challenges to the entire social order.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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