"As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because itâ€™s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then itâ€™s gone forever."

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Source : "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: "Passing Through Gethsemane"/jms speaks". www.midwinter.com. July 13, 2004.

J. Michael Straczynski

#Atheist Quotes #Believe Quotes #Dark Quotes

“And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.”
“Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. . . . Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.”
“The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.”
“The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.”
“Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.”
“Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.”
“Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.”

Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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