Alex Memus > Alex's Quotes

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

“Do not fear mistakes - there are none. ”
― Miles Davis

“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
― Duke Ellington

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

“– Отец Панкратий, послушайте! Вы знаете, где мы все живем, в какой стране, в каком государстве. Здесь все – как бы. Как бы покой, как бы воля, как бы закон, как бы порядок, как бы царь, как бы бояре, как бы холопья, как бы дворяне, как бы церковь, как бы детский сад, как бы школа, как бы парламент, как бы суд, как бы больница, как бы мясо, как бы самолет, как бы водка, как бы бизнес, как бы машина, как бы завод, как бы дороги, как бы кладбища, как бы пенсия, как бы сыр, как бы мир, как бы война, как бы мать родна.
Затворник перестал хлебать чай.
Саша продолжал, с горечью и дрожью в голосе:
– Настоящее у нас – только вот эта боеголовка.”
― Vladimir Sorokin, Белый квадрат

“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”
― Marge Piercy

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.”
― Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia

“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly