Ron Courter
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This is the problem with illusions: They form easy enough, but once they fall apart, they’re impossible to put back together. They’re like humans in that way.
“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
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“That’s the problem with being human. We have brains capable of figuring out the universe to a thousand decimal places, we can build machines as tall as mountains or as tiny as specks of dust, we can prise open atoms like walnuts, we can calculate the weights of distant stars, manipulate nature, ride on super-sophisticated fireworks out beyond the atmosphere, we could blow up our own planet in the time it takes to blow your nose; there’s practically nothing we can’t do, except choose our relatives. Everything else: no bother, piece of cake. But the one thing that’d do more to alleviate stress and grief and give us a head start in the pursuit of happiness is entirely beyond us, further than the Andromeda galaxy, more elusive than the Higgs-Boson. No wonder there isn’t a Nobel prize for putting up with your family. They wouldn’t be able to find anyone to give it to.”
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“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.”
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“Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.”
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“There’s plenty of time and a million different ways to be an asshole. Don’t feel you got to get them all done at once.”
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