"It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion."

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Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

Jan Struther

#Years Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.”
“This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.”
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
“I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.”
“I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.”
“I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.”

Source : "Getting to the End of The Wire with Tristan Wilds". Interview with Jon Hein, www.tvguide.com. March 3, 2008.
“In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.”

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