Mnnccp Quotes & Sayings

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead. — Samuel Butler

Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed. — Clive Barker

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. — Tom Ford

With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed. — David Byrne

In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics - making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or, worse, ostracism were severe penalties - people did not move around voluntarily and considered uprooting a horrible calamity. In larger organisms like the mega holy nation-state, with a smaller role for face-to-face encounters, and social roots, shame ceases to fulfill its duty of disciplinarian. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb