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I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare,... Wally Lamb
Orson Scott Card quote: "If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come..."
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. Orson Scott Card
Steven Brust quote: "You can't put something together again unless you've torn it..."
You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first. Steven Brust
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind..... Anais Nin
In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling. Nicholson Baker
The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing that all of us share. it is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become... Claudia Johnson
James Baldwin quote: "The impossible is the least that one can demand."
The impossible is the least that one can demand. James Baldwin
The Minister had a great respect for Pyle - Pyle had taken a good degree in - well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far Eastern studies (he had read a lot of books). Graham Greene
William Bennett quote: "A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still..."
A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on. William Bennett
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet. Frank McCourt
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are neverable to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say. Mahatma Gandhi
Albert Einstein quote: "The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the..."
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place? Albert Einstein
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. Rebecca West
When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts. Brian Moore
It's a tough business if you don't know what you're doing. But it can be extremely lucrative and very rewarding when you learn the ropes. Robert G. Allen

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