“What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“Margo, zise Frock, râzând încetișor, ceea ce avem noi aici este o ghicitoare, înfășurată într-un mister din interiorul unei enigme.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“New York City had a short memory for violence,”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“You see, when someone says “it’s impossible,’ I have this very bad habit, I can’t help myself, I immediately contradict that person in the most positive terms possible. A very bad habit, but one that I find hard to break.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
“Not only eating Lieutenant, but slobbering over the food as well. Clearly, he, she, or it has no manners.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Relic
Douglas Preston
Born place: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
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“Suppose [a person] had a basket full of apples and, being worried that some of the apples were rotten, wanted to take out the rotten ones to prevent the rot spreading. How would he proceed? Would he not begin by tipping the whole lot out of the basket? And would not the next step be to cast his eye over each apple in turn, and pick up and put back in the basket only those he saw to be sound, leaving the others? In just the same way, those who have never philosophized correctly have various opinions in their minds which they have begun to store up since childhood, and which they therefore have reason to believe may in many cases be false. They then attempt to separate the false beliefs from the others, so as to prevent their contaminating the rest and making the whole lot uncertain. Now the best way they can accomplish this is to reject all their beliefs together in one go, as if they were all uncertain and false. They can then go over each belief in turn and re-adopt only those which they recognize to be true and indubitable.”
― René Descartes, quote from Meditations on First Philosophy
“It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.”
― Budd Schulberg, quote from What Makes Sammy Run?
“I have to give up everything, the house, the servants, my friends, my whole life. I will freeze to death or I will die of boredom. It will be a race between the two.”
― Colm Tóibín, quote from The Master
“So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break.”
― Francesca Lia Block, quote from The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
“shoulder tells me it’d like to rest. When archery lessons are over, I ask Mark if I can practice”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, quote from And After
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