Favourite quotes

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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In nature there are few sharp lines.

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Just as we began to feel that we could make good use of time, there was no time left to us.

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You must stop talking to yourself. Every one of us does that.

We talk about our world. In fact, we maintain our world with our internal talk. Whenever we finish talking to ourselves, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we kindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk.

Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die.

Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan

The degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Sorry about this. It's exactly a Lisa Alther quotation.

Life is a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

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When acting, I am acutely conscious, sometimes overly self-conscious, I think: 'Put your eyebrow back where it was, turn to the left.' I'm sort of very consciously adopting this character, but with music, I don't know. I found it was a question of just closing my eyes and just sort of letting things come out. Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them."