"I think everybody has a secret life."

-- Joanne Harris

#Thinking Quotes #Secret Quotes #Secret Life Quotes

“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.”

Source : "Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do". Speech at Students for a Sensible Drug Policy/Marijuana Policy Project Joint Conference, hyperreal.org. November 09, 2002.
“One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; â€” hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; â€” hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin â€” a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it â€” if such a thing were possible â€” even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”
“I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.”
“Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.”
“By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”
“Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.”

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