"Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature"

-- Julio Cortazar

#Important Quotes #Literature Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love.”
“You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'”
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
“I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.”
“I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper Tries Out Live Format With Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2010.
“What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...”

Source : Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Diana G. Gallagher, Pierce Askegren (2011). “Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; Afterimage”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”

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