"A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement."

-- Neal Stephenson

#Clutter Quotes #Basements Quotes #Universe Quotes

“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”
“I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.”
“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
“On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.”
“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.”
“I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.”
“The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.”
“We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.”

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