"There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain."

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Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.282, Canongate Books

China Mieville

#Pain Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Way Quotes

“One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!”

Source : T. L. Osborn, Daisy Osborn (1980). “Soulwinning”, Harrison House
“It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.”
“Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.”
“I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come.”
“Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.”
“I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.”
“The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs”

Source : John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”
“I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.”

Source : "An Interview with Kelly Link: 'All Books Are Weird'". Weird Fiction Review Interview, weirdfictionreview.com. November 2, 2011.

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