"... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge."

-- Percy Williams Bridgman

#Science Quotes #Bully Quotes #Ruffian Quotes

“I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.”
“The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.”
“Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.”

Source : "A life in books". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books
“If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.”
“Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings”
“Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.”
“I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.”

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