"I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?"

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Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

Peter S. Beagle

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“Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.”
“Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we can use blogs to express specific criticisms of published articles and to use social media to disseminate these criticisms.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.
“Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”
“there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it”
“I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all I really couldnt even think about it.”

Source : "Sundance/SXSW Comeback Kid Gaby Hoffmann On Still Feeling Green Despite Growing Up a Child Star". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2013.
“If you're a member of a despised group, look out! They'll find a drug and associate you with its use. There are a lot of people in the gay community using methamphetamine and paying taxes and going to work and doing well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

Source : "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
“Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.”

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