"The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be."

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Source : Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.200, Penguin

Dorothy Parker

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“To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.”
“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.”
“Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.”
“This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.”

Source : "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,
“If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.”
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
“The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake”

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