"There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity."

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Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.327, Macmillan

Gene Wolfe

#Ignorance Quotes #Space Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.”
“Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs”
“Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.”
“The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.”
“I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.”
“Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.”
“If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.”
“someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.”

Source : Mary Deasy (1955). “The Boy who Made Good”

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