"If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us."

-- Myrtle Reed

#Believe Quotes #Fire Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.”
“If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.”
“I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.”
“Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.”

Source : "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.
“The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality”
“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”
“Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.”
“Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.”

Source : FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 19, 2013

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