Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (pp. 100-101)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (pp. 100-101)
“Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.”
Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf
Source: Cry Wolf
Joan Micklin Silver (1935–2020) American film director
NYWIFT Archive - Interview by Norma Davidoff - at 43 Min 29 Sec - Remembering Joan Micklin Silver, Director & NYWIFT Advisory Board Member https://www.nywift.org/remembering-joan-micklin-silver/ - Original Interview from 5 April 2006 - Published 15 January 2021 - Youtube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFKZK7svpY - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210911143358/https://www.nywift.org/remembering-joan-micklin-silver/
“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 67)
Zero Mostel (1915–1977) American actor
Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), October 14, 1955, regarding Mostel's appearance at a Communist Party fundraiser.
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Attributed by Banksy on Instagram (October 6, 2018): "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge" - Picasso https://www.instagram.com/p/BomXijJhArX/?hl=en&taken-by=banksy. This was actually written by anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin in his essay "Reaction in Germany," in 1842.<br><br>Source: Moore, John (2004). I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite!: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition. Brooklyn NY: Autonomedia. p. 87.<br><br>Source: Lehning, Arthur, ed. (1973). Mikhail Bakunin: Selected Writings. London: Cape. p. 58. <br class="br">Misattributed