"Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go."

-- Laura Riding

#Degrees Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.”
“But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.”
“And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”

Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Success is a an attitude and state of mind where I feel the exhilaration of knowing that I made a difference for many, did this doing what I love, and maing alot of money in the process so I get to experience many things in this extraordinary world. The most important part of success is a deep knowing that I made a difference for others.”
“An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.”
“I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.”

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