"I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions."

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Source : Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

Rivka Galchen

#Crazy Quotes #Leader Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Ultimately, a city is formed by its people and the women in Berkeley are just great. They are opinionated, they have ideas, they belong to boards, and they write letters to editors... really wonderful people.”
“An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society. We take invisible ideas and make them tangible. That's our job.”
“But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.”

Source : Blake Nelson (2008). “Girl”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
“Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.”
“I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.”
“... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.”
“Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.”
“They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.”

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