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“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Perhaps love could never be captured in a definition; it could only ever be captured in a story.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?”
― Alberto Moravia, Agostino

“What's inspired me so much about doing this book is that you are another facet of me. Obviously, being in the 'journalist' role, you are the most weak, facile and spineless side of me, but you're still me”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

“The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

“Empathy is a prerequisite to the sound management of creativity, and respect is critical.”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“As much as this process was a test of my ideas, it was also a test of my temperament, and I couldn't let the negativity being expressed by people who knew little about me affect the way I felt about myself.”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“At any moment, a memory could crack open the surface and he’ll be swallowed whole.”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“If only his ability to conjure his mother's voice was dependable. Tonight he can magic no comfort from her at all”
― Jo Browning Wroe, A Terrible Kindness

“does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones?”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“...Many lives and limbs have been lost, McCandless, by excluding women from the more intricate medical arts."
I felt too tired and sick to argue the point.”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs," he said, "are like people without a past – without a memory – they are half people”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things