"There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know how to put it. The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing. That is a thing that cannot be experienced at all. It is not an experience."

-- U.G. Krishnamurti

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“I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.”
“I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.”
“It so often happens that somebody says 'change your life' and you repaint your car rather than re-wire the engine.”
“My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.”
“'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed”
“Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.”
“I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.”

Source : Esquire, January 2010.

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