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The secret of closed-system botanical collapse was this: It’s not the thing that breaks you need to watch out for. It’s the cascade. The first time he’d lost a whole crop of G. kenon, it had been from a fungus that didn’t hurt soybeans at
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“People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?”
― Half Empty
― Half Empty
“I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement.”
― The Ask
― The Ask
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.”
― The Ask
― The Ask
“Farskou půdu tvořil pravidelný jehlan s čtvercovou podstavou nesený vazbou bytelných trámů. Hluboké podélné praskliny v trámech Hanse v dětství děsily možností, že se krov zhroutí. Pozdější zjištění, že vlastně každý trám je prasklý, se stalo základem jeho životního postoje, který si po vystřízlivění z touhy po dokonalosti formuloval asi tak, že když už musím být prasklý, měl bych být aspoň prasklý dobře.”
― Možná že odcházíme
― Možná že odcházíme
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