"Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children."

-- Sylvia Plath

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“What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.”

Source : Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The best fashion accessory is a book.”
“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
“His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.”

Source : George Wilson (1851). “The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoverers of the composition of water”, p.186
“Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.”

Source : J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.23, Holt Paperbacks
“If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.”
“It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.”
“Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.”

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