"Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances."

-- Darryl Anka

#States Quotes #Circumstances Quotes #Determine Quotes

“And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.”
“To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.”

Source : Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins
“Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.”
“If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.”
“A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.”
“I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.”
“A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.546, Oxford University Press
“He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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