"I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch."

-- Lucy Grealy

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Shining Quotes

“takes a devil to make a decent angel.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2000). “The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel”, p.184, Grove Press
“If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”
“... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.”
“Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.”
“I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.”
“Like any band, including mine, there's a comfort zone that's hard to escape. You kind of need an outsider to tell you that. You think it's your vocabulary, but it's a cocoon that's safe. Producers are supposed to tell you to try things a different way.”
“That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.”

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