"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars"

-- Murray Gell-Mann

#Stars Quotes #Study Quotes #Astronomers Quotes

“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications
“I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.”
“Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not knowâ€”that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.94, Vintage
“I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women.”
“Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.”
“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”

Source : "Man of Fetters" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2008.
“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.92, Spectra
“I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.”

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