"Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong."

--

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.47, Vintage

Michael Herr

“I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.”
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press
“Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.”
“Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.”
“There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.”
“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
“If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.”

Source : Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.8, Harper Collins

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