Quotes to remember

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  1. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    “Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
     
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    “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

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    “I accept Time absolutely.
    It alone is without flaw,
    It alone rounds and completes all,
    That mystic baffling wonder.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
     
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    “Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
     
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    “Maybe that’s what the quasars that stand sentinel at the end of the universe are all about—they are the spots where people like Socrates and Christ dug through; they are windows into bright and terrible wisdom. They are warnings.”
    ― Whitley Strieber, The Wild
     
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    “The speed of 299.796 kilometres a second, which occupies a unique position in every measure-system, is commonly referred to as the speed of light. But it is much more than that; it is the speed at which the mass of matter becomes infinite, lengths contract to zero, clocks stand still.”
    ― Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature Of The Physical World
     
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    “In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
    ― Georg Cantor
     
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    "Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex."--Lorraine Cudmore

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    "I have observed electrical actions, which have appeared inexplicable. Faint and uncertain though they were, they have given me a deep conviction and foreknowledge, that ere long all human beings on this globe, as one, will turn their eyes to the firmament above, with feelings of love and reverence, thrilled by the glad news: "Brethren! We have a message from another world, unknown and remote. It reads: one… two… three…"---Nikola Tesla
     
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    “If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot.”
    ― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum
     
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    “And if the only thing you can do is show up, do it. Then do it again. And when it’s the last thing you want to do and the last place you want to go, go. Just go. You have no idea who you might be helping just by sitting there or who might help you.”
    ― Bill Clegg, Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery
     
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    "Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.”
    ― Lana Del Rey

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    "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
     
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    “I lied and said I was busy.
    I was busy;
    but not in a way most people understand.

    I was busy taking deeper breaths.
    I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
    I was busy calming a racing heart.
    I was busy telling myself I am okay.

    Sometimes, this is my busy -
    and I will not apologize for it.”
    ― Brittin Oakman
     
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    “Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”
    ― Tom Waits

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    Looks like he fits into one of those groups, and I'm not sure which

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    “Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
    ― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
     
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    "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
    - George Orwell
     
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    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
     
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    “The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”
    ― Bill Murray
     

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