"Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress."

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Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

Gelett Burgess

#Progress Quotes #World Quotes #Sanity Quotes

“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Oct 23, 2016
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
“You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings â€“ those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page â€“ but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect â€“ it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.”
“The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.”

Source : Introduction to De Praxi Medica (1696)
“All around us, people were cool. By association, so were we.”
“If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.”

Source : Song: Ghost Busters

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