"A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do"

-- Niall Williams

#Healing Quotes #Hands Quotes #Sound Quotes

“When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.”

Source : Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”
“Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.”

Source : John Galt (1986). “Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered”
“Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.”
“Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.”
“Thereâ€™s an opportunity cost to everything.”
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”
“Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.”
“Everybody used to say going to restaurants... is like theater, there's stage sets, there's drama, there's play acting and you watch the show. And now, boy, everything's just become so serious. And you sit at the counter and the chef comes out and tells you what he did to the Brussels sprouts leaves and no, there's not a lot of dancing.”

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