"The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.”

Source : "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.
“Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.”
“We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.”
“Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.”
“My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.”
“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.”

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