"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Light Quotes #Self Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
“I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.”
“I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.”
“There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.”
“ItÂ´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isnÂ´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you canÂ´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.”
“The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside of the clubs as well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.”

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