"It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Women Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Theme Quotes

“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.”
“I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.”
“the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.”
“The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.”
“Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.”

Source : Galerie Smith-Anderson, Sam Francis (1975*). “Sam Francis: black and white lithographs, 1963-1975”
“I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.”
“I didnâ€™t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.”

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