"You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it."

-- Audre Lorde

#Believe Quotes #Fire Quotes #Order Quotes

“Living a good life may keep you out of jail, but it cannot keep you out of hell.”
“Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?”
“All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.”
“I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.”
“For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name ...”
“I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown
“The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.”
“Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.”

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