Jeff Lemire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...
-- Jeff Lemire

#Two #Way #World
Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.
-- Jeff Lemire

#Dad #Real #Night
I have always loved telling stories about families. I love the idea of people who may not choose to be together, but are nonetheless bonded for life and forced to interact and develop these relationships. I love the tension throwing different types of people under one roof creates.
-- Jeff Lemire

#People #Together #Different

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

Jeff Lemire famous quotes

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