"You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things."

-- Douglas Coupland

#People Quotes #Worry Quotes #Google Quotes

“I have no idea how to do what you're supposed to do. I do a little bit of humming.”
“The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history”

Source : Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner
“Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.”
“I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.”

Source : Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.29, Penguin
“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persistsâ€¦It is an awful condition to be satisfied with oneâ€™s spiritual attainmentsâ€¦God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.”
“Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are”
“I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.”
“Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?”

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