"No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be inâ€¦ and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind ofâ€¦ glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not."

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Source : Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

Greg Egan

#Growing Up Quotes #Lying Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“When my agent called me up and said, "Do you want to be in a movie called Sharknado?" I said, "What is it about? Is it really about sharks falling out of the sky and eating people?" And she said, "Yes." And I said, "Definitely. That is going to be a huge hit. That is going to put to rest the Home Alone dad image. I'm going to be the Sharknado drunk instead, hopefully." And I was right. I don't know how I knew that, but I just knew that Sharknado was going be a huge hit.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“The repeated requests for us to 'wait,' and 'wait,' and 'wait' while our people are suffering, while our people are besieged, while our land is being colonized, and while the two-state solution is being destroyed and the prospects for peace are evaporating, must understand that such requests are not viable under these circumstances and are unsustainable.”
“Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated”
“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”
“My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.”
“I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.”
“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.”
“I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.”

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