"But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best."

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Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

Peter Watts

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“Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.”
“But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.”

Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
“I love surfing more than cricket. It's more interesting and you meet great people.”
“I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.”
“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.”

Source : "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.
“I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.”
“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”
“I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.”

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