"Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational."

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Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.391, Macmillan

Glen Cook

#Moving Quotes #Rational Quotes

“There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.”

Source : "Beyond a Boundary". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.
“Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.”
“I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that doesn't just put a box around "sex writing" and give it glaring neon lights but assumes that sex is part of everything else in our lives.”
“There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.”
“religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.”
“There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.”
“I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.”
“From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, where as we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects.”

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