"The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge."

-- H. G. Wells

#Girl Quotes #Art Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.”
“Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.”
“of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.”
“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014
“I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. Iâ€™d probably just google it.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”
“These big Internationals, they don't let you down”

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