"Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget."

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Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.18, Penguin

Daniel Suarez

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Facts Quotes

“It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.”
“Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.”

Source : William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”
“... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.”
“Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.”

Source : "Remembering NFL Films' Founder Ed Sabol". "60 Minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2015.
“It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Donâ€™t get caught in the machine of the worldâ€” it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.”
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc
“My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. â€œItâ€™s a cat,â€ I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.”
“A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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