#tory

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#archetypes #campbell #i #joseph #know

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#israel #israeli #lebanon #many #military

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#story #true #whether #write

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#carrying #down #get #i #out

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#even #i #know #later #me

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#out #reader #responsibility #somehow #story

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#almost #being #books #case #coincidence

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy