"How we learn is what we learn."

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Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

Bonnie Friedman

#Learning Quotes

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books
“Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.”

Source : Fritz Leiber, Fred Gambino (1979). “Ship of Shadows”
“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”
“I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.”
“If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.”
“You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to amuse my lady friend. I think she'd had enough of my inventions by the end... I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.”
“The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.”

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