“You understand now… how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” -Daphne du Maurier
“You understand now… how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” -Daphne du Maurier
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.” -Bill Bryson
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” -André Berthiaume
“Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.” -Ray Bradbury
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” -Milan Kundera
“That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.” -Ray Bradbury
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” -Aldous Huxley
“One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace.” -Victor Borge
It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You’ll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.
-Piet Hein