"Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten."

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Source : Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.22, Candlewick Press

Cecil Castellucci

#Pain Quotes #Memories Quotes #Rain Quotes

“Are you living in a computer simulation?”

Source : Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press
“I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.”
“To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.”
“Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.”
“Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.”
“It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.”
“We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.”

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