"Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?"

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.122, Penguin

Aleksandar Hemon

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy...”
“The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.”
“Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.”
“Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.”
“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.”
“There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.35, Cambridge University Press
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.Â I am quite sincere about some of the things that people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which most people take seriously.Â In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.”
“Great fear is concealed under daring.”

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