"We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all."

-- Rene Magritte

#Order Quotes #World Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.”
“Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.”
“Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!”
“The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species.”
“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 3, March 29, 2001.
“As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.”
“There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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