"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."

-- Marguerite Young

#Leadership Quotes #Insane Quotes #Hallucinations Quotes

“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.”
“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
“Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.”

Source : Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”
“Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”
“Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.”
“My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.”
“My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.”
“You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.”

Source : Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

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