Quotes for the Ages

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"Who can know what happened in the dim dawn of the world? We can barely decide what to have for breakfast without a theological debate ... ."

Catherynne Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden

[Brian861]

"Who can know what happened in the dim dawn of the world? We can barely decide what to have for breakfast without a theological debate ... ."

Catherynne Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden

Boy, isn't that the God's honest truth....

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"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."

-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[Sock Monkey]

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially."

-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

I can't say that I'm the biggest Hemingway fan--my battle to get through For Whom the Bell Tolls is legendary in my house--but I love this quote. Beautiful and devastating.

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"Truth, 'the highest thing a man may keep,'" he said, "cannot be brought down; a man only attains it by proving his right to it."

Oliver Onions, "Hic Jacet"

[William J. Grabowski]

"Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out."

-James Sallis, Drive

"Help, you goddamn Gods! Help, is all!"
--Gully Foyle, from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

[mhatchett]

William,
You made my day. I often feel that I'm the lone voice in the sci-fi wilderness crying the name "Bester!"
Merry christmas,
Mike

[William J. Grabowski]

William,
You made my day. I often feel that I'm the lone voice in the sci-fi wilderness crying the name "Bester!"
Merry christmas,
Mike

Thanks, Mike. I've loved Bester's work since the early 80s, after reading an interview with him in Charles Platt's first Dream Makers book of interviews. What a spirit! Happy holidays to you.

[Brian861]

"If you don't believe you belong here, then no one will"
-Victor Cruz, WR #80, NY Giants

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"It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief."

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination

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"No one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

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"All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it."

-Heinrich Heine

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"I'll tell you the secret to avoid hangovers. Don't stop drinking."

-Colonel Tigh, Battlestar Galactica

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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

-Oscar Wilde

[Brian861]

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

-Oscar Wilde

Indeed! LOL.