"That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.87, Palgrave Macmillan

William Irwin Thompson

#Sea Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Islands Quotes

“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?”
“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr
“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.”
“Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”
“A wedding is not house-keeping.”
“You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.”
“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.”

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