"Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it."

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Source : David Quammen (2012). “The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

David Quammen

#Animal Quotes #Identity Quotes #Affair Quotes

“I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.”
“I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community... Let me state it bluntly to the LDS folks here this evening: We have sinned against you.”
“Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.”
“My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.”
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.”
“As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.”

Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.395, Vintage

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