"We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings."

-- Brian Aldiss

#Coffee Quotes #White Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.”
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.”
“What does the vice president do?”
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
“Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.”
“I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.”
“When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.”

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