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| #8813 | | I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot
save myself.
-- Jos'e Ortega Y Gasset
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| #8814 | | If a man slept by day, he had little time to work. That was a
satisfying notion to Escargot.
-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
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| #8815 | | He liked fishing a little too much, and he believed that work was
something a man did when he had to. He had always been able to get
along well enough without it, especially for the last couple of
years.
-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
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| #8816 | | Would a giant, profit-oriented cartel lie to you?
-- Top Ten List, Late Night with David Letterman
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| #8817 | | Some days you wake and immediately start worrying. Nothing in
particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning
quietly and there will be trouble.
-- "Survival Series", Jenny Holzer
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| #8818 | | When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but
only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered
glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat
crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard
powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything
like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to
someone else.
-- Margaret Atwood, "Alias Grace"
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| #8819 | | I am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian
on earth believes.
-- Clarence Darrow, to William Jennings Bryan
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| #8820 | | "Go on, girl! You'll never get a better chance to buy Jif at this
price. *Carpe diem*, babe!"
-- "The Naked Consumer", Erik Larson
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| #8821 | | I'm enthralled by combine harvesters. In fact, I yearn to have one --
as a pet.
-- "The Day of the Jackal"
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| #8822 | | The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call
this their point of view.
-- Albert Einstein
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