"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of "in virtue of" relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.”
“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.”
“When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.”
“Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.”
“If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?”

Source : Iain Lawrence (2002). “Ghost Boy”, p.331, Laurel Leaf
“No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.”
“Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.”

Source : Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub
“I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.”

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