"In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Eerie Quotes #Space Quotes #Long Quotes

“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”
“To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.”
“If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it”
“Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver”
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
“I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.”
“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
“In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him off for things he hadn't done or which hadn't even occurred to him to do. Being bossed and patronised are two sensations that most sophisticated adults would sooner do without and yet we are bossed and patronised, by the media, by politicians, by business, by advertising agencies and the public services, more now than at any other time in our history. Why should this be?”

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