"Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Margaret Halsey

#Commitment Quotes #Reality Quotes #Matter Quotes

“No one looks stupid when they're having fun.”

Source : "Amy Poehler: The Entertainer". Interview with Sloane Crosley, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.
“The kind of man who can be pro-choice about your baby could also be pro-choice about you.”
“God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.”
“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
“Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.”
“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.”
“Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.”
“I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.”

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