"So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things."

-- Peter Carey

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.”
“When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you”
“Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.”

Source : "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.
“I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.”
“Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!”
“The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else....”

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