David

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David’s Quotes

“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

tags: screenwriting, writing, writing-craft

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“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

tags: disappointment, disillusionment, gilding, idols, touch

561 likes

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett

1976 likes

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

tags: classics, greek, rumors, women

42 likes

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics

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