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“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”
Source : Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.376, Dell
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“I felt what I was trying to do was make people realize that comics could be deep. I stopped myself in the middle of saying that because the Bazooka Joe thing I do with Dante's Inferno, that was just a goof. I wasn't trying to make people look at Bazooka Joe more seriously. But in my mind it's always been important.”
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“The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.”
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“Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
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“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.”
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“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.”
Source : "Warning" l. 1 (1965)
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“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.”
Source : "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.
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“I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.”
Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014. 
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“Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.”
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“We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
