"Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY."

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Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

Alfred Jarry

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“My mother is a walking miracle.”
“The understanding you gain from practicing gratitude frees you from being lost or identified with either the negative or the positive aspects of life, letting you simply meet life in each moment as it rises...”

Source : Phillip Moffitt (2012). “Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind”, p.106, Penguin
“Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.”
“It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.”
“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.”
“If I was switched from whatever I'm doing, and I was, for some reason, made the chief football writer in any newspaper, then I'd retire. I'd go back to being a barber.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.”

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