"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

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Jane Austen

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“I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.”
“The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy and pointless for the chemists to essay physical reductions, or for the biologists to offer number-free explanations. It's a weird kind of science-worship that views these practical considerations as clues to the nature of reality.)”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“To whom much is given, much is required.”
“The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.”
“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
“In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.”
“I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.”

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