"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."

-- Thomas Keneally

#Sorry Quotes #School Quotes #Home Quotes

“There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
“Live life messy and love every moment of it.”
“The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.”
“When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have goals but those specific benchmarks can easily become irrelevant once you ask yourself, 'where am I having the most impact?' 'Am I going after the stories I want to tell?'”
“Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.”
“I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.”

Source : "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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