"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science."

-- Hannes Alfven

#Drama Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”
“Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.”
“When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.”
“I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.”

Source : Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 23, 2009.
“She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.”
“A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.”
“Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.”
“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”

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