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Being There Quotes (page 79)

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone cacll from the frankly interesting. Bill Bryson
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. Isaac Asimov
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Samuel Johnson
Betty Smith quote: "There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could..."
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. Betty Smith
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. Arthur C. Clarke
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right..."
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. Kurt Vonnegut
There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H. had known something. His buddy Huxley was just an intellectual fidget, but what a marvelous one. Better than G.B. Shaw with that hard keel of a mind always scraping bottom, his labored wit finally only a task, a burden on himself, preventing him from really feeling anything, his brilliant speech finally a bore, scraping... Charles Bukowski
There are some beings, whom fate seems to select on whom to pour, in unmeasured portion, the vials of her wrath, and whom she bathes even to the lips in misery. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(...)There’s the cab, Hopkins, and you can remove your man. If you want me for the trial, my address and that of Watson will be somewhere in Norway –I’ll send particulars later. Arthur Conan Doyle
E. M. Forster quote: "There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type..."
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.? E. M. Forster
There's no way that can be the river," Rhiow said."Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central--" Saash said."It's backward," Rhiow snapped, "thank you very much, I know all about it."Is it?" Saash said. "Which direction are you coming at it from?"Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that. Diane Duane
There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace it by others? this bears witness that one is about to be found unworthy, that one has already doubtless proved unworthy of innocence? Andre Breton
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress. Guy de Maupassant
Robert Asprin quote: "There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon."- G. Gygax"
There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon."- G. Gygax Robert Asprin
There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger. Bret Harte

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