"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant"

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Source : "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.

Mark Andrus

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“Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.”
“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.”
“There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.”
“Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.”
“Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when youâ€™re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then thereâ€™s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And itâ€™s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as itâ€™s rather tedious to fill in the branchesâ€¦”
“Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars”

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