"The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side."

-- Brendan Myers

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“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.”
“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion,Â hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truthÂ and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicateÂ and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skullÂ shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”
“I am really Method-y.”

Source : "Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer Talk 'Blue State,' Why 'Garfield' Saga Isn't Over". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. May 1, 2007.
“Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.”
“A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.”
“Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.”

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