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Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) British novelist and philosopher
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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor
"Me and Miss Mandible".
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
“I just feel so fortunate, you know? … I feel so happy.”
Ellen Page (1987) Canadian actress
Context: I just feel so fortunate, you know? … I feel so happy. I feel so different from how I felt when I was closeted, and to have experiences where I meet people who have been touched in some way by just getting to be who I am is such an incredible experience... I'm in a very fortunate place in my life.<br>I'm a very privileged person to get to talk about issues, particularly those that affect people much, much more vulnerable to me … I feel really grateful to be in a position where potentially I can do little things or whatever I possibly can to help anyone any way I can.<br><br>As quoted in "Ellen Page on Being Able to Openly Love Girlfriend Samantha Thomas: 'It's a Beautiful Thing" by Antoinette Bueno, at ET Online (29 September 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/172955_ellen_page_talks_being_able_to_openly_love_girlfriend_samantha_thomas/
Henry Adams book Democracy: An American Novel
Madeleine Lee in Ch. VIII
Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer
October 7
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)
Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) Portuguese poet
Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Context: One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling... which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.
"Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview" with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
“So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?”
Stephen Hawking book The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell (2001), p. 59
Context: One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated