"Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.”
“I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.”
“It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.”
“Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.”
“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

Source : "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.
“How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?”
“More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.”
“A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.”

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