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“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“They’re not nuts, friends, they’re simply seeing it all through different eyes. They have imagination, and they know something about being alone and in pain. They’re altering the real world to fit their fantasies. That’s okay.
We all do it. Don’t say you don’t. How many of you have come out of the movie, having seen Bullitt or The French Connection or Vanishing Point or The Last American Hero or Freebie and the Bean, gotten in your car, and just about done a wheelie, sixty-five mph out of the parking lot? Don’t lie to me, gentle reader, we all have weird-looking mannerisms that seem perfectly rational to us, but make onlookers cock an eyebrow and cross to the other side of the street.
I’ve grown very fond of people who can let it out, who can have the strength of compulsion to indulge their special affectations. They seem to me more real than the faceless gray hordes of sidewalk sliders who go from there to here without so much as a hop, skip, or a jump.”
― "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
We all do it. Don’t say you don’t. How many of you have come out of the movie, having seen Bullitt or The French Connection or Vanishing Point or The Last American Hero or Freebie and the Bean, gotten in your car, and just about done a wheelie, sixty-five mph out of the parking lot? Don’t lie to me, gentle reader, we all have weird-looking mannerisms that seem perfectly rational to us, but make onlookers cock an eyebrow and cross to the other side of the street.
I’ve grown very fond of people who can let it out, who can have the strength of compulsion to indulge their special affectations. They seem to me more real than the faceless gray hordes of sidewalk sliders who go from there to here without so much as a hop, skip, or a jump.”
― "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
“We routinely film our patients' faces through a tiny camera mounted in the bore of the magnet, and my team monitors patients closely. No notes suggested that Juan had cried during the scan.
"Did you cry tears?"
"I couldn't produce tears. But I still cried.”
― Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
"Did you cry tears?"
"I couldn't produce tears. But I still cried.”
― Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
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