"Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."
John Hersey
"Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions!"
Israelmore Ayivor
"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer."
Jacob Bronowski
"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion."
Abhijit Naskar
"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it."
Sakyong Mipham
"It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception."
David Brooks
"The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible."
J.M. Coetzee
"Always be straight with flexibility and positive; it is medicine for two, first for your in health and second your wounded enemy."
Khalid Tareen
"She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess."
Christopher Moore
"What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women."
Edgar Wallace
"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"
Stephen Richards
"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
Edith Wharton
"The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it."
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