"I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner."

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Source : Rick Bass (2003). “The Hermit's Story: Stories”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rick Bass

#Smell Quotes #Light Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.”
“Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 08, 2015
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.”
“Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.”
“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.”
“There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.”
“I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.”

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