“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”
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“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“My friend, the poet Mark Nepo, says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don’t have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive.”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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