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“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.”

Want Believe Said States Seems Language Animal Doors Dog Masters Theory Baby Speech Ordinary Philosophical Obvious Deny Milk Infant

Author:John Searle

“I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.”

Writing Long Two Together Doors Fit Ordinary Not Sure Back Together Ordinary Life Partition

Author:Anne Tyler

“Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.”

World Self House Rooms Doors Figures Ordinary Window Gorgeous Palaces October Ordinary Life Archetype Vanishing Ordinary World

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“ordinary is the door for extraordinary.”

Doors Ordinary Extraordinary

Author:Rajneesh

“People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.”

People Want Guy Next Doors Stage Planets Ordinary Ordinary Life

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.”

Bigs Happens Behinds Doors Drama Quiet Ordinary Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me.”

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Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.”

Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.”

Men Hands House Doors Ordinary Sells Photograph Fifty Hook Chrome

Book:Beginners

Source: Beginners

“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.”

Night Fire Doors Car Ordinary Climbing Gestures Roof Gripping Gansey

Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

“To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.”

World Mind Remember Virtue Doors Middle Missing This World Divine Ego Ordinary Areas Claims Extremes Disappear Virtuous Imbalance Polarity

Author:Rajneesh