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“I want you to tell Him something for me. Tell Him it ain’t right for people to die when they’re young. I mean it. Tell Him if they got to die at all, they got to die when they’re old. I want you to tell Him that. I don’t think He knows it ain’t right, because He’s supposed to be good and it’s been going on for a long, long time. Okay?” “And don’t let anybody up there push”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“Yet one caution let me give by the way to my present or future reader, who is actually melancholy—that he read not the symptomes or prognos-ticks of the following tract, lest, by applying that which he reads to himself, aggravating, appropriating things generally spoken, to his own person (as melancholy men for the most part do), he trouble or hurt himself, and get, in conclusion, more harm than good. I advise them therefore warily to peruse that tract. —Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford, 1621, Introduction”
― Foucault's Pendulum
― Foucault's Pendulum
“He can’t stop us. We’re on a mission from Glod.”
― Soul Music
― Soul Music
“would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,” he said. “Have you thought of going into teaching?”
― Mort
― Mort
“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote.* Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
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