"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Fear Quotes #Believe Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.”
“Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the useful arts, had prepared the soil upon which this seed was to germinate and to flourish.”
“My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you donâ€™t expect to go. Thatâ€™s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say â€˜a ha,â€™ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while youâ€™re doing it. You know more about it after youâ€™re done.”
“Design is an unknown.”

Source : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
“Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.”
“Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel (2009). “The Piano Teacher”, p.262, Grove Press
“And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want”
“Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.”

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