"The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.”
“Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.”

Source : "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”
“You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.”
“You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.”
“If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.”

Source : "Speech delivered at Barisal on 14th October 1917",
“Before Elvis there was nothing.”

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