"As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Memories Quotes #Confused Quotes #Maturity Quotes

“I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.”
“You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.”
“My movies are not about being, but becoming.”
“Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.”
“The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.”
“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic
“Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.”

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