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Otherness Quotes (page 154)

As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean. Jack Kerouac
Joan D. Vinge quote: "There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your..."
There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it. Joan D. Vinge
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. Kurt Vonnegut
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else... Douglas Adams
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a..."
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. Vladimir Nabokov
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there..."
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. Michel de Montaigne
Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me. Reynolds Price
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil William Butler Yeats
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. Stephen King
Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...'Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddamn toilet seat. J. D. Salinger
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life. Sarah McLachlan
The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country. James Baldwin
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man. Barbara Ehrenreich
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain. Lloyd Alexander
Quentin Crisp quote: "It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way."
It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way. Quentin Crisp

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