"I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Morning Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”
“I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”

Source : "Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self", p.241, 1989.
“If I have an iPod, I'm good.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.”
“Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.”

Source : "Go forth (Vol.10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.
“My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to imagine alternate worlds, to writing about [Buckminster] Fuller who was the ultimate world man creating all sorts of alternate worlds and believing that they were imminent to my own work of - for instance, a project that I've been working on for some year and a half, two years now that continues to evolve has been what I call Deep Time Photography.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.”

Source : Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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