"Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity."

-- David Gelernter

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“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”
“I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.”
“I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.”
“In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.”
“I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.”
“Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.”
“But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.34, Allison & Busby
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