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Reasonable Quotes (page 48)

Jack Kerouac quote: "After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the..."
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. Jack Kerouac
As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change. David Brin
James Patterson quote: "There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when..."
There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going. James Patterson
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the... Ray Bradbury
We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love the? How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the least moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows -- a colorless, all- color of... Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say..."
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny. Terry Prachett
T. S. Eliot quote: "The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for..."
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
Why do people take or keep their children out of school? Mostly for three reasons: they think that raising their children is their business not the government’s; they enjoy being with their children and watching and helping them learn, and don’t want to give that up to others; they want to keep them from being hurt, mentally, physically, and spiritually. John Holt
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again Maxine Hong Kingston
S. E. Hinton quote: "We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as..."
We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason. S. E. Hinton
Mario Puzo quote: "Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. Mario Puzo
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Steven Weinberg quote: "All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to..."
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically Steven Weinberg

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