#invent

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗

— Lee Child

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#after #asks #because #beforehand #book

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#few #first #great #his #hours

The inventory goes down the elevator every night. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#elevator #every #every night #goes #inventory

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#date #easily #end #invention #man

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#another #being #business #chance #dramatic

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#anything #because #book #character #english