"It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2."

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Source : Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.58, Penguin

Robin Benway

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“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source : Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge
“Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.”
“Just because youâ€™ve only been alive for fifteen years doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less anything except old. Thatâ€™s all it means. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less experienced. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less intelligent. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less sensitive. It doesnâ€™t mean you take things less seriously. Itâ€™s like, these are younger human beings, meaning donâ€™t, because theyâ€™re only ten, start thinking that they donâ€™t know what youâ€™re talking about -because they do. Donâ€™t leave people out in the cold, and donâ€™t talk down to people -donâ€™t. It never works out.”
“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”

Source : Joy Williams (2010). “Taking Care”, p.210, Vintage
“One of the things we've learned about Donald Trump is he totally obsessed by the media. He is like the media critic-in-chief. He watches more cable news than people who work in cable news do. And he's extremely thin skinned about it.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.”
“The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachersâ€”stern and wild onesâ€”and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”

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