"If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever."

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Source : John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.88, Macmillan

John McPhee

#Years Quotes #Forever Quotes #Way Quotes

“Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.”
“I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.”
“Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.”
“Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.”
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.”
“[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.”
“We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.”
“Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.”

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