"And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: â€˜A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.â€™ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely."

-- Oliver Sacks

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“They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.”

Source : "In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.
“If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.”
“My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.”
“You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.”
“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.”
“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1987). “The haunting of Hill House”, Penguin Group USA
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”

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