"One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself capable of accomodating one's love; and jealously, because it can become the image of one's limitations in time and space, and yet can give the Proustian blessing of more life."

-- Harold Bloom

#Love Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Space Quotes

“Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.”
“I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.”
“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1838). “Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry”, p.14
“I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.”
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”

Source : "Flesh and Fire". Book by Laura Anne Gilman, 2009.
“I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.”
“The goal of all life is death”
“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.”

Source : "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.

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