"I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is."

-- Richard Ford

#Thinking Quotes

“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”
“That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.”
“We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that â€˜the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.â€™ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.”
“Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage
“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

Source : Anna Sewell (2014). “BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature”, p.27, editionNEXT.com
“Any slower and he'd be in reverse.”
“I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”
“In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion King, is 100% pure crap. So we're doing better than they are even though they have the benefit of mostly not being about space marines.”

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