"I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to."

-- Shane Warren Jones

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.”
“I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.”
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.”
“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”
“Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”

Source : "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.
“When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2051, Рипол Классик

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