"I've seen death and I didn't like it."

--

Djuna Barnes

“There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.”
“Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.”
“Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!”
“News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.”
“Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century.”
“I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.”
“In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.”

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