"Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days"

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Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte

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“Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.”
“Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.”
“Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.”
“The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly structure." "They suddenly become less chaotic?" I said, wishing that would happen at HiTek. "No, that's the thing. They become more and more chaotic until they reach some sort of chaotic critical mass. When that happens, they spontaneously reorganize themselves at a higher equilibrium level. It's called self-organized criticality.”
“Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.”
“The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.”
“I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.”
“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”

Source : Esquire, June 1960

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