#tom

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. ↗

— Otto Dix

#depths #experience #ghastly #i #life

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #any #arrange #atoms #awful

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#pitcher #rain #save #tomorrow #you

It's hard to start from the bottom. ↗

— Lou Duva

#hard #start

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#automatically #collected #everything #hitman #i

To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.' ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#after #anatomy #bath #box #grey

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#automatically #drama #everyone #fall #period

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. ↗

— Peter Erskine

#customers #launching #no point #point #ready

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider