"Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough."

--

Tana French

#Sacrifice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fearless Quotes

“Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.”
“I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.”
“Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.”
“I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.”
“As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK
“I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.”
“There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.”

Source : "McGill University Featuring Pseudoscience", web.archive.org. December 30, 2005.
“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.”

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