"If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken."

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Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.186, Scholastic

Brian Selznick

#Broken Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Like You Quotes

“I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.”
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.”

Source : Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.444, Univ of California Press
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”
“We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
“I'm an interpreter of music.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: A Chat With Phantom of the Opera and International Concert Star Sarah Brightman". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 5, 2013.
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press
“The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.”

Source : Owen Gingerich (2006). “God's Universe”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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