"How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us carries on living.All these things affect how we live."

-- Tariq Ali

#Doe Quotes #Circumstances Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.”
“What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.”
“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”
“In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. However, the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime itself, not an event in time.”

Source : Taner Edis (2002). “The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science”, Pyr Books
“Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.”
“What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.”

Source : "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.
“Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.”
“Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.”

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