Truncation Operator Quotes & Sayings

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. — Patrick Ness

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. — Greg Lake

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know — Arundhati Roy

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension. — Charles Horton Cooley

I am a creature of chemicals. — Orson Scott Card

These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone. — Simon Garfield

All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts. — Javier Cercas

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it. — Lauren DeStefano

It was only after oral tales became written orthodoxies that some people were labeled "pagans" and "heretics" and burned at the stake for unorthodox views. The greatest strength media ecology possesses is its ability to generate unorthodox views. Media ecology makes a better "Trojan horse" than a golden bull. — Peter K. Fallon

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan. — Timothy Leary