"Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is."

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Source : Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Saul Bellow

#Life Quotes #Beauty Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.”
“The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.”

Source : "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

Source : John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett
“Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.”
“Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.”
“When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.”
“I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.”

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