"Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much."

-- Jack McDevitt

#May Quotes #Reason Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.”

Source : Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press
“There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.”
“Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me”
“There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned”
“There is a noble and a base side to every history.”
“To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.”
“I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.”

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