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Fiction seemed all about harnessing infinity. In fiction, when you walk into a restaurant and you sit down, there's nobody there and the restaurant doesn't exist. The restaurant is a horrific, never-ending nothingness. So you make scattershot decisions about what the restaurant might look like and the person you might be sitting with. — Jon Ronson

What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life. — William Barrett

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with. — Alain De Botton

Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year ... The palm tree line ... I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line ... It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome ... — Leonardo Sciascia

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth. — Luis Alberto Urrea

Whenever perfection becomes the goal, it becomes the enemy of progress. — Amy Pendergrass

In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody
from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung
can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions. — Auberon Waugh

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. — John Henry Jowett

And the Angelfucker makes his move. — Sylvain Reynard

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. — Billy Higgins

Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys. — Cammi Granato

Retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But — Walter Isaacson