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  • #1
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #2
    Elfriede Jelinek
    “Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”
    Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

  • #3
    A.A. Milne
    “She turned to the sunlight
        And shook her yellow head,
    And whispered to her neighbor:
        "Winter is dead.”
    A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

  • #4
    Carl Sagan
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #5
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
    If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
    What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
    There is no free will.
    There are no variables.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #6
    Milan Kundera
    “People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #7
    Sharon Creech
    “The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”
    Sharon Creech, The Wanderer
    tags: sea

  • #8
    Sanober  Khan
    “May your love for me be
    like
    the scent of the evening sea

    drifting in
    through a quiet window

    so i do not have to run
    or chase or fall
    ... to feel you

    all i have to do
    is
    breathe.”
    Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

  • #9
    Roman Jakobson
    “Linguista sum, linguistici nihil a me alienum puto.”
    Roman Jakobson

  • #10
    George Carlin
    “Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.”
    George Carlin
    tags: irony



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