"Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)"

-- Ellen Hopkins

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“Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.”
“Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?”
“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
“A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.”
“Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.”
“We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.”
“Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.”

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