"Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes."

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John D'Agata

#Philosophical Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fate Quotes

“I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.”
“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.”
“If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.”
“There is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bllodeshot eye.”
“The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.”
“I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.”
“The LSD experience usually changesÂ forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”

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