“This was quite the leap, since at the time insects were believed to spontaneously generate.”
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
“the history of the earth that had seemed so solid, so fixed under and around him, came alive, though the unknown author’s awkward, unpolished style — the book being written now in the present and now in the past tense — confused him, so he couldn’t be sure whether he was reading a work of prophecy regarding the earth’s condition after the demise of humanity or a proper work of geological history based on the planet on which he actually lived.”
― Satantango
― Satantango
“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it . . . [Prohibition is] a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
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