"I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes."

-- Arthur Koestler

#Civilization Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Ethical Quotes

“In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.”
“Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!”
“When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)”
“Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.140
“I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.”
“I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.”
“People â€¦ don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.”
“Sometimes it takes a long time for a picture to incubate. And every time I do that, the rewards are so much bigger than what I would have gotten if I had only done the same as I always do. So each time I make an effort and I get out of a lazy routine, it's amazing how big the reward can be. It's listening to those little ideas knocking on the door in your mind.”

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