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I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into. Diane Ackerman
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it. Kelsey Grammer
Virginia Woolf quote: "For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order."
For nothing matters except life; and, of course, order. Virginia Woolf
I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world. Lindsey Shaw
Ritchie Blackmore quote: "I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk."
I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk. Ritchie Blackmore
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We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible. Jim Cantalupo
Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them."That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. Suzanne Collins
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "I call architecture frozen music."
I call architecture frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
C. S. Lewis quote: "The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought."
The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought. C. S. Lewis
If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. Ellen DeGeneres
Melvin Burgess quote: "That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her..."
That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her. Melvin Burgess
Jodi Picoult quote: "It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells..."
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it. Jodi Picoult
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When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. Gordon Sinclair
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. Fernando Pessoa
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun