"There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music."

-- Rachel Cusk

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“I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity”
“My heart wants roots My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.”
“[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.”
“The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.”
“My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.”
“They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.”

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