"The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail."

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Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

Gregory Benford

#Details Quotes #Tides Quotes

“All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.”
“I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.”
“Intelligence in the cat is underrated.”
“And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.”
“For sure it's better to have a coach. I won't lie to you. It's better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it's not easy to feel someone. That person has to be - has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.”
“Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.”
“People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.”
“I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.”

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