“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Source: Collected Sketches and Lyrics
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Source: Collected Sketches and Lyrics
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Biff, in Ch. 1
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)
“The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story…”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter
A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition, Spotlight, Russia Today, January 24, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ost0Gyl2V1I,
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 336
Context: I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.