"When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too."
Robert A. Heinlein
"To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array."
Ruth Ozeki
"That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it."
Eugene H. Peterson
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver
"I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly."
Joseph Conrad
"I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse."
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library."
Michel Foucault
"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs."
George Jean Nathan
"If you want to know how old a woman is . . . Ask her sister-in-law."
Edgar Howe
"One bad turn does not excuse another."
Richelle E. Goodrich
"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
Edgard Varese
"There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity."
Mollie Marti
"We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe."
Vandana Shiva
"Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent."
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