“Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“Didn't any of these brainless wonders ever notice that TV shows were called programs? the same word that meant a bunch of numbers stuck into a computer to make it dance for its masters?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
“The moment her feet touched the floor, a chill ran up her spine. She was standing on her sweatshirt, which lay next to her bed in a crumpled pile. It was soaking wet.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from The Secret Hour
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“We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the real work, which means everything that is done to stay alive, to make things, or satisfy one's curiosity, or play. That is utopia.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الحرية الايجابية تقوم في النشاط التلقائي للشخصية الكلية المتكاملة.
لقد قلنا ان الحرية السلبية بنفسها تجعل الفرد كائنا منعزلا وتكون علاقته بالعالم بعيدة ولا تقوم على الثقة والتي تكون نفسه ضعيفة مهددة باستمرار. والنشاط التلقائي هو النشاط الذي يستطيع به الانسان ان يقهر رعب الوحدة دون تضحية بتكامل النفس, ففي التحقق التلقائي للنفس يتحد الانسان من جديد بالعالم وبالانسان وبنفسه. والحب هو المركب الشديد لمثل هذه التلقائية, لا الحب بمعنى اذابة النفس في شخص آخر ولا الحب باعتباره تملكا لشخص آخر, بل الحب باعتباره التاكيد التلقائي للآخرين, باعتباره وحدة الفرد والآخرين على اساس الحفاظ على النفس الفردية. وتكمن الصفة الدينامية للحب في هذه القطبية نفسها: انه ينبع من الحاجة الى قهر الانفصال, انه يفضي الى الوحدة والاتحاد - ومع هذا لا نستأصل تلك الفردانية. والعمل هو المركب الآخر, لا العمل بمعنى النشاط الاضطراري للهرب من الوحدة, ولا العمل كعلاقة بالطبيعة التي تكون في جانب منها علاقة تسيد عليها وفي جانب آخر عبادة وعبودية لمنتجات ايدي الانسان, بل العمل كخلق حيث يصبح الانسان متحدا مع الطبيعة في فعل الخلق. وما يصدق على الحب والعمل يصدق على كل فعل تلقائي سواء كان تحقق لذة حسية او مشاركة في الحياة السياسية للجماعة. انه يؤكد لفردية النفس وفي الوقت نفسه يوحّد النفس بالانسان والطبيعة.
والسمة الاساسية الموجودة في الحرية - ميلاد الفردية والم الوحدة والعزلة- تنحل على مستوى اعلى عن طريق الفعل التلقائي للانسان.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Baby, Heaven doesn't want me yet, and Fuck if Hell can handle me, so you're kinda stuck with me.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church.
Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks.
No, I realise. It's the reverse. ”
― Scarlett Thomas, quote from The End of Mr. Y
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