"So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris"

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Scott Westerfeld

#Fall Quotes #Balloons Quotes #Cases Quotes

“It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.”
“The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars”
“The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.”
“The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.”
“Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.”
“Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has â€˜inventedâ€™ himself by saying â€˜noâ€™ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.”

Source : The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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