"There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them."

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Source : Robert Silverberg (1984). “Lord of Darkness”, Bantam

Robert Silverberg

#Taken Quotes #Believe Quotes #Soul Quotes

“May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.”
“I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.”

Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
“I don't think you can ever please all audiences.”

Source : "Director Karan Johar Exclusive Interview MY NAME IS KHAN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 7, 2010.
“No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.”
“. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.”

Source : John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.339, Simon and Schuster
“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.”
“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.”
“I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.”

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