“Once you understand how plot, character, and theme all work together, chances are good that, if you get one of them right, you’ll get all three right.”
― Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
― Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Thoughts on Art and Life
― Thoughts on Art and Life
“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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