"On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit."

-- Peter Straub

#Afternoon Quotes #Liquid Quotes #Bedtime Quotes

“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living Â— cook books and detective stories.”
“Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.”
“remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.”
“We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.”
“Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.”
“American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.”
“There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.”
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment to materialism. We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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