"Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!"
Carol Emshwiller
"One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin."
Rudyard Kipling
"But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions."
Katherine Howe
"Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity."
Emily Maguire
"Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism."
Anonymous
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"The power in people is stronger than people in power."
Saji Ijiyemi
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Sun Tzu
"Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement."
Glen Duncan
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
"You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story."
Jude Morgan
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
Khalil Gibran
"Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away."
David John Griffin
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
Epictetus
"Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow."
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