"There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds."

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Source : Greg Bear (2014). “Women in Deep Time: Stories”, p.96, Open Road Media

Greg Bear

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.”
“If we give up the notion that everybodyâ€™s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobodyâ€™s life is perfect.”
“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”
“Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.”

Source : Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”
“Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant”
“The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art”
“It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.”

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