"There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first."

-- John Updike

#Quality Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“God is thy law, thou mine.”
“Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.”
“Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.”
“I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”
“Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.”

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