“Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.”
― Heist Society
― Heist Society
“Look at them. Where are they looking? They're not looking at each other, they're not looking at the art on the wall or the sun in the sky; they're looking at their phones. They hang on to every beep and alert and tweet and status update. I don't want to be that. I'm distracted enough as it is by the actual, tangible, physical world. I've embraced the efficiency of a desktop PC for work and research, and I even use a laptop on my own time, but I draw the line at a cell phone. If I want social media, I'll join a book club. I will not be collared and leashed and tracked like a tagged orca in the ocean.”
― Neanderthal Seeks Human
― Neanderthal Seeks Human
“God did not create man. Man created god.
He did this to help him deal with death, the unknown, and all the other bo**ocks that he couldn't quite get his head around.”
― Lost in the Crowd
He did this to help him deal with death, the unknown, and all the other bo**ocks that he couldn't quite get his head around.”
― Lost in the Crowd
“She watched you wrestle Toby Jameson, who probably weighs two hundred pounds, without even working up a sweat. And she said to herself, wow, that's a good wrestler, he must be an angel.”
― Unearthly
― Unearthly
“it would be possible to become a Stone Age native. For over 30 years, I programmed and conditioned myself to this end. In the last 10 of it, I would say I realistically experienced the physical, mental, and emotional reality of the Stone Age. But to borrow a Buddhist phrase, eventually came a setting face-to-face with pure reality. I learned that it is not possible for human beings as we know them to live off the land.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
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