"If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe."

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Source : Charlie Huston (2009). “My Dead Body: A Novel”, p.45, Del Rey

Charlie Huston

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Dark Quotes

“My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.”
“It's nice to be taken seriously.”

Source : "Festival preview: A conversation with activist Bruce Cockburn". Interview with Fish Griwkowsky, www.brucecockburn.org. August 7, 2013.
“We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

Source : John Lanchester (2000). “Mr. Phillips”, Putnam Adult
“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”
“It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.”
“Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
“And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.”
“Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.”

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