"And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel."

-- K. W. Jeter

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Personality is the gland of creativity.”
“Iâ€™ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that youâ€™re with me, even when youâ€™re not by my side.”
“Diplomacy is living in state.”
“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.”

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.”
“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.”
“I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.”
“Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.”

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