"The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Light Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Function Quotes

“"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'”
“There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.”
“A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.”
“I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Answers in Genesis"/"Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD (Official)", www.youtube.com. February 4, 2014.
“I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people”
“I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.”

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