“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
“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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“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
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