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Michael Marshall Smith : Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood. # Questions # Love # Belief

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Bhagavad Gita : " Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Julian of Norwich : " And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Walt Whitman : " Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Henry Rollins : " When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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William Blake : " He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. If the sun and moon should doubt They'd immediately go out. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Bertrand Russell : " The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Christine Bovee : " Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Madonna Ciccone : " "When in doubt act like god". " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Philip James Bailey : " Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Henry David Thoreau : " Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. " # Questions # Love # Belief

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Michael Marshall Smith: " I'm not a great believer in writing courses, though it must be said I've never been in one. It probably depends on what kind of writer you are. I'm very un-analytical about what I do. I don't plan much for the first draft. I try to let characters come out by themselves, rather than designing them. But other writers work differently, and for them the teaching process - which at least forces you to consider what you're doing, and why - may be very helpful. At the very least a creative writing course mandates someone to spend a period of their life just writing, which can be hard to do otherwise. But beware of thinking too much about what you do." # Writers and Writing # Planning # Love

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Michael Marshall Smith: " There's nothing like the waiting room of any office of the governmentor its allies to remind you of how lucky you are. You enter a nonplace, nontime. You sit on battered chairs in murky blues and greens that nobody ever names as their favorite color. You stare at the signs that have no bearing on you, nonspecific communiqués from the land that punctuation forgot. You wait until the waiting loses all sense of direction or purpose, until you become like a stone deposited in a field millenia ago by a careless glacier. You are here. This is all you have ever known. In the meantime you are stripped of any sense of individuality, of the idea that you might be different from anyone else in the room except by virtue of your particular problem; and so you become the problem, defensively, accepting it as identity, until it swells and suppurates and becomes all you are. As a species we'll tolerate being close to others, but not so close, and not in those circumstances and when we feel so small: we become rows of dry, fretting eyes, hating everyone around us and sincerely wishing our neighbor dead so we can move up one place in the line. Or maybe it was just me." # Wisdom # Love # Books - Reading

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Michael Marshall Smith: " A pencil is a simple and predictable piece of technology. There's only one way of it working (it will function when it is sharp), and an obvious failure model(too short, too blunt, no lead). With a car, especially the kind of limp-along rust bucket most of us got for our first ride, it's more complex. There's coaxing involved, especially on cold mornings. There's that noise that never amounts to anything but never goes away, random stalls you begin to put down to the cast of the moon. None of it means it's broken, just that it requires friendly attention, that it has needs. Gradually you acquire a ritualized relationship to it, a bond forged by its unpredictability, by the fact it has to be dealt with. Which is how you come to know people, after all: not by things they have in common with everyone else, but through learning your way around their eccentricities, their hard edges and unpredictable softnesses, the things that make them different from everybody else." # Life and Living # Love # Friends and Friendship

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Michael Marshall Smith: " Forests in the day are friendly places. They remind you of Sunday walks, swooshing leaves, holding a parent's big, warm hand, or providing that hand yourself. At night the woods take the gloves off and remind you why you're nervous in the dark. Night forests say "Go find a cave, monkey-boy, this place is not for you."" # Friends and Friendship # Cities and City Life # Love

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Michael Marshall Smith: " It was dry and cold, not bitter, but with the kind of steady chill that makes it hard to remember being any other way. I tried to imagine people living out here once, and couldn't. It must have been long ago. The land felt like it didn't want anyone bothering it anymore." # Death and Dying # Love # Writers and Writing

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Michael Marshall Smith: " Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood." # Questions # Love # Belief

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Michael Marshall Smith: " It was all a matter of hard work and luck, and Ryan didn't mind either of those. No, the stuff that wore you down was the parts where no amount or work seemed to make the difference, where luck simply wasn't there and wasn't coming and you couldn't seem to explain that to someone who had their heart set on the world being the way it was supposed to be, instead of the way it was." # Baseball # Luck # Love

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Michael Marshall Smith: " My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it." # Truth # Experience # Life and Living

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Michael Marshall Smith: " Must be a strange life these days, for toes. A simple twist of fate and they could have been the big boys, the much-feted opposables, spending their days busy carrying things and controlling machinery and touching interesting parts of people's bodies. They don't get to do any of that. Instead they just get pushed into small, dark leather places and forgotten about, and when they're let free they often seem little more than a strange fringe on the ends of your feet." # Twentieth Century # Love # Dance and Dancing

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Michael Marshall Smith: " It had taken me a while to work out what I got from this. You didn't watch in the hope of seeing something exciting. Just the opposite. You watched because the very lack of discernible activity, of presented subject matter, made the view itself seem more real. If you watch something in particular, all you see is that thing happening. You see the moment, the event, and you are distracted from the long, slow tide of eventlessness underlying it. If you watch nothing, then you see everything. You see the thing as it is." # Books - Reading # Love # Happiness

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