"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Sleep Quotes #Acting Quotes #Information Quotes

“A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.”
“To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.”
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earthâ€™s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for â€¦ the origin of chains of high mountains â€¦ and the rise of lava to the earthâ€™s surface.”
“In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.”
“All bayonets are bad.”
“When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.”

Source : "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.
“Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.”

Source : "R. S. Thomas : Priest and Poet". BBC TV, April 2, 1972.
“I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent”

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