“Simon called you 'Machiavelli disguised as a debutante.'" "Gosh," I said, not sure whether to feel flattered or insulted.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.
'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--'
'No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.'
It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“I wondered whether mad people would be better off if their memories could be neatened up, or taken off the shelves on which they were stored and replaced with nicer ones, and if they'd be the same person then, or completely different ones, and whether dreams were like a vandal rampaging through a library of memories, tearing out random pages and turning them into paper boats...”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Don't ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven't got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don't do it.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“I know.” She sighed. “We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“اننا فخورون باننا لسنا خاضعين لاية قوة خارجية, واننا احرار في التعبير عن افكارنا ومشاعرنا ونحن نأخذ بثقة ان هذه الحرية تكاد تضمن على نحو تلقائي آلي فرديتنا. وعلى اية حال, فان حق التعبير عن افكارنا لا يعني شيئا الا اذا كان قادرين على ان تكون لنا افكار من انفسنا, ان التحرر من السلطة الخارجية هو مكسب اخير اذا ما كانت الظروف السيكولوجية الباطنية هي بشكل يمكننا من تأسيس تفرديتنا. فهل نحن حققنا ذلك الهدف او اننا على الاقل نقترب منه ؟”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“I mean who knew the man had sperm with super powers that could just swoop on in, rescue and repair a broken womb like a damn superhero?”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“For to-day I take or give;
For to-day I drink and live;
For to-day I beg or borrow;
Who knows about the silent morrow?”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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