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“This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.”
Source : Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press
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“It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.”
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“I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.”
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“The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.”
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“When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.”
Source : 'Epigrams' (1618) bk. 1, no. 5 'Against Writers that Carp at Other Men's Books'
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“I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here -- in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into -- well -- into being right, before they're too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”