"When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb"

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Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

Gene Tierney

#Light Quotes #Secret Quotes #Normal Quotes

“I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.”
“I don't think the idea of requiring these to be only sold to people who have already own the bonds, in other words, this naked position that the Germans have recently put into their financial regulation and has been discussed here. I don't think that makes any sense.”
“I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.”
“A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.”
“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? â€” how far? â€” how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.”
“Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?”
“One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.”
“By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace”

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