"Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

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“The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but [(500) Days of Summer] Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets Spider-Man [as his next project]. Are you kidding me? You cannot win.”

Source : "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.
“As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator.”

Source : "Tricked". Book by Kevin Hearne, April 24, 2012.
“I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.”
“If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.”
“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.”

Source : Emanuel Swedenborg (2000). “Heaven and Hell”, Chrysalis Books
“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”
“Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.”
“The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.”

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