"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

-- Norman Mailer

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“It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career when I wasn't trusting the language, I was really not trusting the written language, the English language. How do you work with a material that you don't have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.”
“I tend to be a very logical, practical person.”
“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.”

Source : "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.
“None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.”
“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
“I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.”
“Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.
“Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always...”

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