"Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbableâ€”more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis."

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Judith Hooper

#Facts Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Seven Quotes

“I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.”
“If you create a relationship that's based, to some extent, on support and money, it creates an entirely different relationship because people are going to be behaving in certain ways to please you, and not in their natural way.”

Source : "Rain in a Dry Land". "POV" Interview, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2007.
“Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.”
“Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.”
“Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”

Source : Ted Chiang (2010). “Stories of Your Life and Others”, p.137, Knopf
“To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.”
“For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.”
“Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.”

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