"Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality."

-- Gary Shteyngart

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“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”

Source : "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.
“God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.”
“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”
“Reality is not what it used to be.”

Source : "Fictional character: Simon". "In the Mouth of Madness", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”
“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.”
“There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.66, Everyman's Library
“What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.”

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