“Dying's a boring side effect.”
Joseph Kavinsky
The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
last words (15 February 1988), recalled by sister Joan Feynman, in Christopher Sykes, editor, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994), p. 254
"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.
“I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Statement at age 80 in The New York Times (3 April 1970)
“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”
George Lucas (1944) American film producer
Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmZp5cgbkU <br class="br">Context: One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings — you know, creating the environment — that they spend film time on it. And you don't have to spend too much film time to create an environment. What they're doing is showing off the amount of work that they generated, and it slows the pace of the film down. And the story is not the settings. The story is the stories, plot. You're always surprised with characters, I mean in film it's even more dramatic than it is in writing, because eventually you actually take a real person and stick them into that character. And that real person brings with him, or her, an enormous package of reality. I mean, Threepio is just a hunk of plastic, and without Tony Daniels in there it just isn't anything at all. In the first film we had maybe 20 colors to paint with, and this time we've had 40 colors to paint with. Well, that doesn't mean it's going to be a better painting. Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
“Laughter is the only tranquillizer with no side effects.”
Red Symons (1949) Australian broadcaster and musician
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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
"The Storyteller" (1936)
“I had the best vaccine, it was the virus. No side effects.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
As quoted in "Bolsonaro Says the Best Vaccine for Covid-19 Is the Virus, which Has Killed More than 188,000 in The Country" https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2020/12/bolsonaro-says-the-best-vaccine-for-covid-19-is-the-virus-which-has-killed-more-than-188000-in-the-country.shtml, Folha de S.Paulo (23 December 2020) <br class="br">2020