"Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it."

-- Larry Niven

#Travel Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“Does the devil know he is a devil?”
“I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.”
“The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.”

Source : "The Ubyssey" (student newspaper of the University of British Columbia), February 9, 1979.
“Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?”
“There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.”
“College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.”
“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”

Source : Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.95, A&C Black
“When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.”

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