"Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone."

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Source : Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.30, Macmillan

Courtney Summers

#Gone Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Should Quotes

“Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if A Midsummer Night's Dream was really a dream?”
“To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.”
“I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.”
“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.”
“They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”
“I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.”

Source : "Scientists Win Nobel For Work On How Cells Communicate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2013.
“Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.”
“There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.”

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