"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

-- Jack Vance

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.”
“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”
“You think it's a blessing to know what God wants?”

Source : "Fictional character: Jesus". "The Last Temptation of Christ", 1988.
“Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.”
“[B]y banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.”
“Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.”
“Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.”
“Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.”

Source : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, l.561-4.

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