#than

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#am #archaeology #astronomy #based #basis

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#course #differentiated #full #how #individual

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#easier #many #moderation #perfect #than

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#causes #consequences #grievous #how #more

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ↗

— Richard Bach

#better #first #friends #know #meet

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ↗

— Richard Bach

#bodies #characters #fictional #heartbeats #more

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. ↗

— Richard Bach

#burns #fire #jonathan #little #lives

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #founding #more

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #found #more

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#far #faraway #future #happening #here