"To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective."

-- Claude Simon

#Memories Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Greatness exists in all of us.”
“If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.”
“A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.”
“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
“Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.”
“We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands-that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.”
“Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.”
“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? Thatâ€™s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, â€œAt Your Service,â€ like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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