Circumstances Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.”

— Kate Fox

“The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the…

— George Steiner

“Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist: they demand…

— George Eliot

“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective…

— Annette Simmons

“Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.”

— Robert McKee

“One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our…

— Willa Cather

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless hair trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over a chronic…

— David Rakoff

“A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances”

— Santosh Avvannavar

“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson