"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver
"This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them."
R.W. Schmidt
"If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays."
Joel Kinnaman
"To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom."
Ellen J. Barrier
"And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?Her resilience ?Her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? Is that true or is it just a consolation ? A shifting of responsibility? And if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ?"
Ahdaf Soueif
"...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.
"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-."
Emily Dickinson
"Greediness of getting more deprives ... The enjoyment of what it had got."
Thomas Sprat
"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
"Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them."
Marty Rubin
"Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency."
Joseph Addison
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
George Orwell
"Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter."
Jaeda DeWalt
"The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things in the material world, as researchers have always assumed. Rather, they were ‘fixed’ mental images."
James David Lewis-Williams
"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
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