"when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads."

-- Helen Eustis

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“Keep looking at me,â€ she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. â€œHeâ€™s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?â€ Her expression was triumphant. Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.”
“Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.”
“Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.”

Source : Julian May (2013). “A Pliocene Companion”, p.4, Pan Macmillan
“I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.”

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“Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.”
“I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.”

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“A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.”
“No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.”

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