Simon Boswell quotes

“To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."”
-- Simon Boswell

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“I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when it was released - you know, all that nonsense about people fainting in the cinema - and decided it would definitely freak me out. I particularly remember my girlfriend telling me about Suspiria - ironic considering my first ever film work was with Argento - and how scary it was.”
-- Simon Boswell

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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster

“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”

“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183

“If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps”

“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”

“He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.”

“When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“Seek freedom from the conformity of styles”

“The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.”