- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's obviously not a huge leap to think of something similar happening in fiction.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020