"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."

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Source : "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, April 1977.

Frederik Pohl

#Giving Up Quotes #Two Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2002). “The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems”
“Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do”
“VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.”

Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
“The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.”
“I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.”
“how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”
“Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.”
“Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.”

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