"Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesnâ€™t."

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Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

David Shields

#Everything Happens For A Reason Quotes #Stories Quotes #Want Quotes

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”
“I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.”

Source : Alex Raymond (1990). “Flash Gordon: Mongo, the planet of doom”
“If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person.”
“Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.”
“While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 11, 2013
“After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.”
“Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.”

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