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    #46
    "Why should things be as they should be? They never have been before."

    Max Brooks, World War Z
    “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
    -John Barth

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      #47
      "You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."

      Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
      “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
      -John Barth

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        #48
        “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

        -Mark Twain (origination contested)
        “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
        -John Barth

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          #49
          Fear knocked at the door.
          Faith answered.
          There was no one there.

          -Anonymous (The Sopranos)
          Last edited by bugen; 06-09-2016, 01:16 AM.
          “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
          -John Barth

          https://bugensbooks.com/

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            #50
            Originally posted by bugen View Post
            Fear knocked at the door.
            Faith answered.
            There was no one there.

            -Anonymous (The Sopranos)
            Love that quote.

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              #51
              "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

              -Blaise Pascal
              “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
              -John Barth

              https://bugensbooks.com/

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                #52
                Originally posted by bugen View Post
                "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

                -Blaise Pascal


                “The universal condition of mankind [is] a state of loss.”—John Fowles

                “There is a mania to call the lost thing until it returns.”—Günter Grass

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                  #53
                  Originally posted by William J. Grabowski View Post
                  “The universal condition of mankind [is] a state of loss.”—John Fowles

                  “There is a mania to call the lost thing until it returns.”—Günter Grass
                  Good combination.
                  “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                  -John Barth

                  https://bugensbooks.com/

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                    #54
                    "We of Man's creation are left to mourn his passing, and to worship the memory of Man, who controlled all that he knew save only himself."

                    -Lester Del Rey, "The Faithful"
                    “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                    -John Barth

                    https://bugensbooks.com/

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                      #55
                      I've recently been romanced and steamrolled by Castle, so to return to darkness:

                      Every hand's a winner
                      And every hand's a loser
                      And the best that you can hope for
                      Is to die in your sleep


                      -Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"
                      “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                      -John Barth

                      https://bugensbooks.com/

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                        #56
                        The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
                        But I have promises to keep,
                        And miles to go before I sleep,
                        And miles to go before I sleep.

                        -Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
                        “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                        -John Barth

                        https://bugensbooks.com/

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                          #57
                          Originally posted by bugen View Post
                          The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
                          But I have promises to keep,
                          And miles to go before I sleep,
                          And miles to go before I sleep.

                          -Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
                          One of my favorite passages ever.

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                            #58
                            "The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely."

                            -H.P. Lovecraft, "Pickman's Model"
                            “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                            -John Barth

                            https://bugensbooks.com/

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                              #59
                              "You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f@#$ing smart how come they lose so goddamn always?"

                              -The Newsroom (Aaron Sorkin)
                              “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                              -John Barth

                              https://bugensbooks.com/

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                                #60
                                "I have proof, scientific. People are far dumber than they realize."

                                -Nan Flanagan, True Blood
                                “Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.”
                                -John Barth

                                https://bugensbooks.com/

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