"Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence."

-- Galileo Galilei

#Light Quotes #Long Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”
“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”
“My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.”

Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.
“It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".”

Source : Sandra Brown (2001). “Envy”
“It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.”
“I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.”
“I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books

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