Doings Quotes (page 602)

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• war
• believe
• world

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. Karl Kraus

• nature
• expectation
• to live

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. Isaac Asimov

• grateful
• manly
• thinking

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions. John Stuart Mill

• saying
• finding
• say

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Henry David Thoreau

• life
• gang
• house

So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. E. M. Forster

• education
• brain
• saying

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain. Erich Maria Remarque

• learning
• science
• biosphere

The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it. P. J. O'Rourke

• leaving
• crazy
• she

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave Neal Stephenson

• contrary
• evidently
• knows

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Edward Gorey

• rightful
• rightfully
• wrongs

The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot

• life
• soul
• soulful

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. Pindar

• past
• paste
• keeping

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there. Michael Connelly

• time
• liars
• chance

Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive."Liar."Try me."You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have."They had almost reached their destination. Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side."You sound just like Minna," said Bragg. I know," Col said. "I know I do. I've been... Timothy Findley

• broken
• star
• look

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken? Jeanette Winterson

• night
• late night
• otherness

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs. F. Scott Fitzgerald