519 quotes found
“Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but...”
“No amount of saying I love you and I trust you makes it true when it isnt.”
“I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.”
“The right place; that was what he was looking for. The right place. Place was all important, place meant everything. Take this rock"Take you, rock," he said. He squinted at it.Ah yes, here we have ...”
“By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.”
“I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.”
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you're just this collection of cells, ...”
“By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to p...”
“You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.”
“If it helps you. I forgive you. But i have learned in recent weekd that seeking forgiveness from others is meaningless unless you can forgive yourself.”
“The History Of The Universe In Three WordsCHAPTER ONEBang!CHAPTER TWOsssssCHAPTER THREEcrunch.THE END”
“it had been briefed that when Culture people didnt speak Marain for a long time and did speak another language, they were liable to change; they acted differently, they started to think in that oth...”
“Marain, the Cultures quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, d...”
“I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.”
“[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.”
“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
“In every area of life everyone is capable of seeing from a higher perspective than they do now.You are never stuck. You're simply limited by the level you are seeing from.Limitation is always illus...”
“Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.”
“They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you cant trust them.”
“It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful Culture that had , within living memory, taken par...”
