"How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning."

-- Dan Chaon

#Eye Quotes #Cells Quotes #Color Quotes

“Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.”

Source : Viktor Hamburger, Society for Developmental Biology (1968). “The emergence of order in developing systems”
“There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.”

Source : Ian Stewart (2010). “Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities”, p.89, Profile Books
“I have decided to leave Cleaâ€™s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.”
“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

Source : Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press
“God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big”
“Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.”
“I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate. So much of modern rock is referencing music from 20 years ago.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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