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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far."

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

"The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow."

"Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago."

"The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

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🇺🇸George R. R. Martin

Literature

b. 1948

"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."

"I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off."

"This is the kind of thing you wonder about when you make up things for a living."

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🇨🇭Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Philosophy

1921–1990

"That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy."

"Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'"

"The automatic assumption that everything a unionist does is wrong is not good for us. Like, how could everything that unionists do be wrong? I mean, they're not a special people. They're not a kind of special bad people."

"Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love."

"He smiled his irresistible smile, but Dora found it highly resistible."

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🇬🇧William Dalrymple (historian)

Literature

b. 1965

"Dalrymple is British—Scottish, to be exact—but his controversial statements are more likely to concern the country's Mughal or British past. He is today India's most famous narrative historian."

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning."

"What I mean, you can’t just go ahead and foist on the consumer some gimmick that potentially could undermine our entire social and economic system. Simply because the consumer wants it."

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them"

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared."

"Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia."

"Gene Roddenberry: What Might Have Been..." on Roddenberry's failed 70s pilots"

"The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense."

"Art has different meaning for different people. For some its realism, for some its escapism, and you have to accept that."

"John Mortimer plays in Bristol University Theatre Archive"

"Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line."

"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability."

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🇺🇸Jack Black (author)

"There was no great awakening or such. I did some magazine cartooning years before, but never perused it much. It was just a "freak" opportunity that came up at Hanna-Barbera"

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