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Ian’s Quotes

“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.”
― Will McIntosh, Love Minus Eighty

tags: not-in-the-mood

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“going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’ ”
― John McPhee, Assembling California

tags: kindlehighlight

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“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

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“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

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“Many fine people were out there living, people whose consciences permitted them to sleep at night despite their not having written a decent sentence that day, or ever.”
― Annie Dillard (Author), The Writing Life

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