"Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course."

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Ilona Andrews

#Medical Quotes #Said Quotes #Term Quotes

“After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.”
“I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.”
“God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.”
“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. Weâ€™re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”

Source : "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves". Book by Dan Ariely, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
“Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 183), 1994.
“Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.”
“What reality was ever made by realists?”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.32, Vintage

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