"I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean."

-- C.P. Snow

#Moving Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Two Quotes

“I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.”

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“Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.”
“With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.”
“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”
“My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.”
“The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.”
“If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.”
“My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.”

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