"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart"

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mad Quotes

“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”
“Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.”
“My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.”
“Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.”
“He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”
“When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.”

Source : The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.
“The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.”

Source : Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.
“After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.”

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