"There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts."

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Thomas Huxley

#Savages Quotes #Ghost Quotes

“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.”
“I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.”
“But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.”
“For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the Conference. The wide points gap between first and second says we are about to witness the return to the football league of Accrington Stanley. So legendary have they become that everyone across the generations knows them, yet even those of the certain age required (you'd be pushing 60) can scarcely believe they were ever there. What proof do we have that this most Garcia Marquez of football teams was, is and yet may truly be?”
“All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.”
“There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.”

Source : "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.
“So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.”
“For once, Evie didnâ€™t know what to say. She hadnâ€™t really thought of her uncle as very human. He was more like a textbook who occasionally remembered to put on a tie. But it was clear that he was, indeed, human, with a deep wound named Rotke.”

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