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“It is interesting and probably not at all important to note that when a human state is attempting collectivization, one of the first steps is a frantic call by the leaders for an increased birth rate - replacement parts in a shoddy and mediocre machine.”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
“There is one great difficulty with a good hypothesis. When it is completed and rounded, the corners smooth and the content cohesive and coherent, it is likely to become a thing in itself, a work of art. It is then like a finished sonnet or painting completed. One hates to disturb it. Even if subsequent information should shoot a hole in it, one hates to tear it down because it once was beautiful and whole.”
― THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ
― THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ
“So has this plaster Lady [The Virgin Mary] a powerful effect on the deep black water of the human spirit. She may disappear and her name be lost, as the Magna Mater, as Isis, have disappeared. But something very like her will take her place, and the longings which created her will find somewhere in the world a similar alter on which to pour their force. No matter what her name is, Artemis, or Venus, or a girl behind a Woolworth counter vaguely remembered, she is as eternal as our species, and we will continue to manufacture her as long as we survive.”
― THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ
― THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ
“It is impossible to say how bad our moving pictures were - one film laboratory has been eager to have a copy of the film, for it embodies in a few thousand feet, so they say, every single thing one should not do with a camera.”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of the water would be blown bodily away, and any ship that stood in the path of that onslaught shook and staggered as tons of green sea smote her upper deck and raced in a torrent down her whole length. Boats were smashed, funnels were buckled, bridges and deck-houses were crushed out of shape: men disappeared overboard without trace and without a cry, sponged out of life like figures wiped from a blackboard at a single imperious stroke.”
― The Cruel Sea
― The Cruel Sea
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