"Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy."

-- Melissa Marr

#Believe Quotes #Space Quotes #Normalcy Quotes

“Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.”
“We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.”
“I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a ***** straight face.”
“Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.”

Source : "Viewpoints on String Theory: Edward Witten". "NOVA" interview, www.pbs.org. July 2003.
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness”

Source : Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins
“It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.”

Source : Louis Zukofsky (1961). “It was”
“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ...”
“Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.”

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