"I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint."

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Source : Source: www.hbook.com

Mary GrandPre

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“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.”
“The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.”
“Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.”
“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”
“You have to feel your own personal truth with a little â€˜tâ€™ â€“ your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big â€˜Tâ€™.”
“This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?”
“[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.”

Source : Pascal Boyer (2001). “Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors”, Random House (UK)
“No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.”

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