"I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Writing Quotes

“Never is my life have I ever experienced anything as crazy as this.”
“For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.”
“From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.”
“My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.”

Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.135, MIT Press
“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.”
“In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2010). “Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown”, p.197, Macmillan
“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”
“You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.”

Source : Song: Infrared Roses

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