Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!
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This is the worst outcome possible for the euro. Not only is there no clear winner, it will be difficult for either side to form a coalition and there seems to be hostility to the idea of a grand coalition. It looks as if it could drag on for weeks if not months and that uncertainty is the worst thing for markets.
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
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The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
