"I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct."

-- Barry Hannah

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“Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.”
“Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.”
“The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”
“I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates”

Source : "Eurogroup chief: 'I'm for secret, dark debates'" by Valentina Pop, euobserver.com. April 21, 2011.
“Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.”

Source : Mark Mulvoy, Art Spander (1977). “Golf: the passion and the challenge”, Prentice Hall
“As many serve the Virgin as serve God.”
“In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers.”

Source : Ralph Martin (2006). “The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints”, p.203, Emmaus Road Publishing
“When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”

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