"It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence."

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Source : New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993.

Edna O'Brien

#Fate Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.”
“Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere”
“Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.”
“Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”
“A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.”
“I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand”
“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press
“It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.”

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