"We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire."

-- Saul Bellow

#Inspirational Quotes #Stars Quotes #Fire Quotes

“It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable”
“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”
“Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.”
“We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.”
“I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.”
“Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”
“If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.”

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