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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.


Aleksandar Hemon

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ALEKSANDAR HEMON A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else ...
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON Memory narrativises itself.
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON His belief is a firmly established delusion.
GERALD ZERKIN The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Desire and sorrow are siblings.
NEHA KOTHARI Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually s...
GLENN GREENWALD My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best ...
WINONA RYDER The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
JACK ANDERSON My siblings are my best friends.
AMERICA FERRERA Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
DAVID HALLBERG [I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie ...
SAM HARRIS If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word ...
STEVE MARABOLI We all know dogmatists who are more concerned about holding their opinions than about investigating ...
DAVID L. WOLFE Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil...
M.F. MOONZAJER There are many kinds of delusion.
MICHAEL ENDE Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
MENCIUS The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing hap...
RUSSELL POTTS I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hey, you feel like driving today?" he asks. "I don't want to walk to the bus stop. It's too cold." CYNTHIA HAND Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have ...
JEFFREY KLUGER Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something
LEMONY SNICKET In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your par...
DEBORAH TANNEN Religion is the surrender of truth to the whimsy of belief.
RAIN BOJANGLES Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE We didn't set out to get these six siblings, but it just happened - and are we blessed.
AUDREY THOMPSON Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come al...
JEFFREY KLUGER The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
YASUTANI ROSHI Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted del...
KIM CATTRALL The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there
YASUTANI ROSHI The greatest delusion of all is not realizing that you are always delusional.
AARON SANTOS There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.
ANTHONY MARRA Truth about tears is that , most tears are the result of a delusion
POP SAMUEL What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN All citizens of every state in your country are your siblings & all citizens of every country in the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's all siblings. You can't ask for much more than that.
CHASE WESTFALL in particular among his siblings.
FRANK DUNHAM I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
“I’ve always been a stick-...
SABRINA JEFFRIES - So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautif...
LIBBA BRAY What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.
ESTHER M. FRIESNER They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that ne...
ZADIE SMITH He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you
bring it?"

"My list? Heavens, no. What ca...
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CYNTHIA HAND Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs.
"What are you, security?...
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SARAH WINMAN Why would I stop simply because I know it annoys you?
ALANEA ALDER We're not doing anything until I find my sister,' I say
RICHELLE MEAD The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa...
JOHN COREY WHALEY If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
LIN-CHI Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil’s decei...
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HARVIN MOORE It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."...
VERA NAZARIAN All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
AMBROSE BIERCE Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden...
JASON CALACANIS Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
TINA FEY Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured ...
THOMAS BRACKETT REED Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.
VANNA BONTA A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about ...
KONRAD LORENZ The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE He had delusions of adequacy
WALTER KERR You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never b...
DOUGLAS H. EVERETT Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.
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