"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."

-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#Book Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Proust Quotes

“The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship”
“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
“Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.”
“Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.”
“The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp!”
“I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.”
“I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.”
“If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.”

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