"What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are."

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Source : Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

Stephen Elliott

#Believe Quotes #Order Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.”
“When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.”
“The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through conquering the passions. (The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter) the chaste and pure region of the heart. Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be resÂponÂsible.”
“There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.”
“I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.”
“African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”

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