Marsault Interview Quotes & Sayings

We all have to accept reality, yes, that's true. But just to accept reality and do nothing else, that is the attitude of human beings who have lost the ability to develop and grow, because human beings also have the ability to create new realities. And if there are no longer people who want to create new realities, then perhaps the word progress should be removed altogether from humankind's vocabulary. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars. — John L. Phillips

Questioning what we believe and want is difficult at the best of times, — Daniel Kahneman

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see. — John Cage

But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward — Jane Austen

It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine. — David Bowick

Safety lies in the middle course.
[Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.] — Ovid

I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same. — Gene Wolfe

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football. — John Carlin

A short scuffle, and then out into the gloom, her grey crest raised and her barred chest feathers puffed up into a meringue of aggression and fear, came a huge old female goshawk. Old because her feet were gnarled and dusty, her eyes a deep, fiery orange, and she was beautiful. Beautiful like a granite cliff or a thunder-cloud. She completely filled the room. She had a massive back of sun-bleached grey feathers, was as muscled as a pit bull, and intimidating as hell, even to staff who spent their days tending eagles. — Helen Macdonald

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch

Once you're using sides and sauces you're on the right track and you're also following the general principles about how to eat well in the United States. — Tyler Cowen

Dear J:
I feel lucky that I didn't fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn't fuck you the last time we met in San Francisco. this is the answer to your letter even though I don't know if you'll ever read it. the words are yours but I'll get credit for the poem. you see, it could never have worked, the way I am.
B. — Charles Bukowski

So I have to wish for the end of the world as I know it?" Xander asks, another hint of his old laugh in his voice. "Not the end of the world. For the beginning of a better one, — Ally Condie