“This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.”
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“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”
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“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. ”
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“Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.”
― Off the Wall at Callahan's
― Off the Wall at Callahan's
“Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.”
― Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
― Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
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