"Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Thinking Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.”

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“Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.”
“I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.”
“With the birth of the babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowmentâ€”a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than the coins of Caesar. This child was to become the King of kings and Lord of lords, the promised Messiahâ€”Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
“I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.”

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“I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.”
“There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever. ... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal ... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.”
“At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.”

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