"There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm."

-- James O'Barr

#Men Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Arms Quotes

“I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.”
“When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.”
“When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.”
“The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.”
“The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.”
“But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.”

Source : Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
“It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.”
“The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler”

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