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Caleb Scharf

"Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in."

Source : Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Caleb Scharf

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“I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in The Bling Ring. I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.”
“Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.”
“...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.”

Source : "For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?". Book by Anders Chydenius, 1765.
“I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.”
“Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.”
“I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.”

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