"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."

-- Sarah Zettel

#Phases Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.”
“Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?”
“Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.”
“A good writer wants from us â€” or has no right to ask more than â€” intelligence, good faith and time.”
“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”
“Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert.”
“The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.”

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