"Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't."

#Heart Quotes #World Quotes #Dull Quotes

“It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.”
“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”
“I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets down my throat. Stars seemed to be shooting out of my finger and toes, the ends of my hair.”
“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
“I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.”
“Charity is the note that resolves the discord.”
“One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1997). “Virtual unrealities: the short fiction of Alfred Bester”
“I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.”

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