"Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers."

-- Arthur Eddington

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“I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.”
“I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.”
“The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.”
“Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!”
“People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.”
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.”
“As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow”

Source : Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.355, Derrydale Press
“You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.”

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