“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females.”
― The Eye in the Pyramid
― The Eye in the Pyramid
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
― Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
― Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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