"Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Assumption Quotes #Shakes Quotes #Universe Quotes

“I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.”
“The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.”
“As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.”
“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”

Source : Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade
“I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.”
“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.”
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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