"Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we donâ€™t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

#Believe Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Reality Quotes

“In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.”
“Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.”

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“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”
“Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.”
“Because I practice often with my children at home.”
“Things don't matter, people do”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.27, The Overlook Press
“The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.”

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