"The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious."

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Source : Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.132, Hachette UK

Simon Mawer

#Mind Quotes #Denial Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend Â£45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.”
“Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.”

Source : "Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics". Book by Arjo Klamer, 1983.
“I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair”
“"Airgela" is "Alegria" backwards and "Alegria" means "Joy" or "Happiness." This is a fundamental word in this film. It's very important. Symbolically "Alegria" is crucial word in the creation of this project. Although it wasn't present from the beginning, as we were working on the music it became symbolic.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.”
“I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.”
“That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.”
“That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.”

Source : "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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