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I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilization, some terrible human lie. What the lie was, I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then. I know now it was our believing that we were fulfilling some end, serving some plan - that all would come out well in the end, because there was some great plan over all. Instead of the reality. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. John Fowles
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. Stephen Ambrose
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5 Erich Maria Remarque
There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable. Anne Lamott
If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! It may be that you can't get an answer to that particular question by finding out more about the character of nature. But my interest in science is to simply find out about the world. Richard P. Feynman
Michael Crichton quote: "They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that..."
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. Michael Crichton
Michael Palin quote: "My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how..."
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Michael Palin
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. Ayn Rand
Joseph Gordon-Levitt quote: "His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many..."
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Agatha Christie quote: "One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged..."
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none. Agatha Christie
Stephen Hawking quote: "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything..."
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. Stephen Hawking
The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. "May I ask you a question?"Yes."Have you ever thought you were Christ?"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean. Ray Bradbury
I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone. I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder. As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me. The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --We two will pass through death and ages lengthen. Before you hear that sound again with me. Sara Teasdale
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. Graham Greene
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning. Now you are no longer caughtin the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-makingsweeps you upward. Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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