"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.”
“I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.”
“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naÃ¯ve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism”
“However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.”
“Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.”

Source : Sandra Newman (2002). “The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel”, Vintage
“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.”
“Great spenders are bad lenders.”
“And I, infinitesimaÂl being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.”

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