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Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one. Andy Warhol
Michael Crichton quote: "We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so."
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. Michael Crichton
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. Stephen King
Rene Descartes quote: "Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)"
Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) Rene Descartes
Alison Lurie quote: "There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but..."
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too. Alison Lurie
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant. Margaret Mitchell
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the... John Holt
Ian Mcewan quote: "Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to..."
Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before. Ian Mcewan
George R. R. Martin quote: "They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,"
They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit, George R. R. Martin
Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the... Aleister Crowley
England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call o? the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are me? who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a... Gilbert K. Chesterton
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no..."
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is. L. M. Montgomery
Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. Probably means it’s no big deal. Haruki Murakami
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book. Haruki Murakami
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves. Wendell Berry

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