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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail. Jean-Paul Sartre
Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable. Roald Dahl
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Douglas Adams
C. S. Lewis quote: "I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man."
I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man. C. S. Lewis
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like. William O. Douglas
Henry Miller quote: "The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like..."
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. Henry Miller
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. Arundhati Roy
Jodi Picoult quote: "You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? Jodi Picoult
Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth. Huston Smith
Andrei Sakharov quote: "We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world,..."
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged.... Andrei Sakharov
Don Marquis quote: "Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like..."
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella Don Marquis
It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we're capable of anything. There's no stopping us. Gerard Way
Edith Wharton quote: "We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we? Edith Wharton
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death. Henry Miller
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. Zora Neale Hurston

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