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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. Douglas Adams
Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. Herman Melville
When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again. Margaret Mahy
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself. Ursula K. Le Guin
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? Philip K. Dick
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"she lights her cigarette withmy lighter and looks at methrough the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think Ican ever pay that price again. Charles Bukowski
Oscar Wilde quote: "One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. Oscar Wilde
Frank Zappa quote: "I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get..."
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? Frank Zappa
A. A. Milne quote: "A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is..."
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. A. A. Milne
The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or having their thinking planned and ordered for them, can, will and do pick up from the world around them important information about what we call the Basics. It will also demonstrate that "ordinary" people, without special schooling themselves, can give their children whatever slight assistance may be needed to help them in their exploration of the... John Holt
George Eliot quote: "And, of course men know best about everything, except what..."
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. George Eliot
It's a contention of Heat Moon's -- believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get-- that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him. William Least Heat-Moon
A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the "perfect dad"? I shudder at thinking what that may be. Bret Easton Ellis
Albert Einstein quote: "There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human..."
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. Albert Einstein
I said: "Dead end - quiet, restful, like your town. I like a town like this." Marlowe (talking about Olympia) in a short story called Goldfish. Raymond Chandler

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