"This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you canâ€™t get fresh fruit in the shops."

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Source : Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press

Geoff Ryman

#Hurt Quotes #Book Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.”
“Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Bach from Apr 06, 2011
“Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.”
“"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened."”
“In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.”
“How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.”
“What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.”
“I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.”

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