George was enormously far-sighted (Gareth Wigan)

George was enormously far-sighted, and the studio wasn't, because they didn't know the world was changing. George did know the world was changing. I mean he changed it.

(Twentieth Century Fox executive) Gareth Wigan (on Fox' signing away the sequel rights and Star Wars merchandising to George instead of paying him more after the success of American Graffiti)

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What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )

That's about right: a little, no more (Michel Houellebecq)

Photo by Rupert Britton on Unsplash When all's said and done, the idea of the uniqueness of the individual is nothing more than pompous absurdity. We remember our lives, Schopenhauer wrote somewhere, a little better than a novel we once read. Michel Houellebecq (in Platform )

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