Harupik Quotes & Sayings

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. — John Steinbeck

Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. — Anonymous

You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not. — Jeanette Winterson

All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ. — Criss Jami

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. — Lisa See

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing. — Amy Lane

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. — John Dewey

What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not about just working and then writing for a year. That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don't know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all. — Karan Bajaj