"Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective."

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Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.22, Random House

Ernest Cline

#Stars Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.”
“Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.”
“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression â€“ by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”
“After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.”
“I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.”
“I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.”
“When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.”

Source : "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.
“The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.”

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