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Michael Pollan quote: "We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to..."
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. Michael Pollan
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room. Doug Coupland
As the figure moved before him he followed the muscles as they wove beneath the skin. he was not only fighting with an assailant who was awaiting for that split second in which to strike him dead, but he was stabbing at a masterpiece -- at sculpture that leapt and heaved, at a marvel of inky shadow and silver light. A great wave of nausea surged through him and his knife felt putrid in his hand. His body went on fighting Mervyn Peake
John Fowles quote: "There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will..."
There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. John Fowles
Jules Renard quote: "There are no friends; only moments of friendship."
There are no friends; only moments of friendship. Jules Renard
If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward. Stan Brakhage
There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. (...) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize. Tad Williams
You like to tell true stories, don't you?' he asked, and I answered, 'Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.' Then he asked, 'After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? Only then will you understand what happened and why. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. Norman Maclean
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
E. E. Cummings quote: "may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or..."
may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. E. E. Cummings
I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you. Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you. Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Pablo Neruda
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake. Robert Browning
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism. George Orwell
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The only security of all is in a free press."
The only security of all is in a free press. Thomas Jefferson
There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness. Tom Robbins

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