“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper ”
“Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.”
“History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.”
“By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....”
“If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones, the human race would have died out long ago—most women never would have let most men near them.”
“was good enough when good men held the office, but always when you create an office that a man can lay hands on, an evil man will someday lay hands on it.”
“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.”
“I’m not a character in one of your novels.” “More’s the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.”
“If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.”
“Marriages, even the best ones—perhaps especially the best ones—are an ongoing process of spoken and unspoken forgiveness. •”
“When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.”
“How long before both women and men are allowed to see self-respecting rebellion as a lifelong possibility?”
“Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.'
'What?' said Mars, looking too.
'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.'
'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.”
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