"It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers."

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Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.29, Random House

Josh Bazell

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“I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook.”
“Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm”
“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”
“Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.”
“I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.”
“My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.”
“Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

Source : Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.299, Vintage

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