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Chuck Klosterman quote: "Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing,..."
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. Chuck Klosterman
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand... Cormac McCarthy
We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us. Paulo Coelho
So I told [the doctor] about my hay fever, which used to rage just in summertime but now simmers the year round, and he listened listlessly as though it were a cock and bull story; and we sat there for a few minutes and neither of us was interested in the other's nose, but after a while he poked a little swab up mine and made a smear on a glass slide and his assistant put it under the microscope and found two cells which delighted him and electrified the whole office, the cells being... E. B. White
Frank Herbert quote: "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and..."
But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. Frank Herbert
We are only seeking Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past." -Snow from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. William S. Burroughs
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight. Harold Nicolson
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking. W. G. Sebald
John Steinbeck quote: "With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a..."
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining. John Steinbeck
Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant:They're afraid of change, and we must change.They're afraid of the young, and we are the young.They're afraid of music, and music is our life.They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas.They're most afraid of our magic. James Patterson
Thornton Wilder quote: "Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than..."
Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. Alain de Botton
Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in thought, and there they are at your disposal, which inspires us to the illusory hope of enjoying a kind of dominion over them. Marcel Proust
Eudora Welty quote: "One place understood helps us understand all places better"
One place understood helps us understand all places better Eudora Welty

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