"Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him."

-- Donald Barthelme

“Iâ€™m a pretty chill person. Iâ€™m kind of a homebody and I like to just hang out with friends and have dinner. Iâ€™m not, you know - Iâ€™m definitely not Neal Caffrey in the sense that Iâ€™m not, you know, drinking a $500 bottle of wine at a nightclub. Iâ€™m just - Iâ€™m pretty chill.”
“I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.”
“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.”
“I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.”
“As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.”
“Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.”
“Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.”

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