"Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give."

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Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.71, Penguin

S.M. Stirling

#Love Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
“Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.”
“We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.”
“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.”
“Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?”
“You become more attractive when you love yourself. You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.”
“I am not bald - my head is just a solar panel for a sex machine.”
“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. Iâ€™d fantasized about those lips way too many times. Sheâ€™d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”

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