"No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking."

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Fay Weldon

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes

“You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.”
“The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.”
“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And itâ€™s a terrible thing. Iâ€™m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”
“Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.”
“Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex.”
“The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.”
“Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream - I think itâ€™s fantastic.Â The same girl has been doing my make-up for 12 years and she says my skinâ€™s never looked so good.”

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