"My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?"

-- Thomas Ligotti

#Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Smirk Quotes

“Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean ....”

Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Naval Observatory (1858). “Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy”, p.167
“Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.”
“All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
“If you are in a hurry to get money, you will be in a hurry to spend it. Anything that starts dubiously will surely end dubiously.”
“An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr
“When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.”
“When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. Iâ€™ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.”
“Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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