"Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil."

-- Paolo Bacigalupi

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“A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.”
“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.”
“It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.”
“Love is an impossible concept.”

Source : "Sweet exile" by Caroline Sullivan, Alex Bellos, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 1995.
“The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.”
“If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.”
“If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.”
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

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