"Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it."

-- Tea Obreht

#Knowing Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Departure Quotes

“If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).”
“Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.”
“Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.”
“When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.”
“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
“Evil brings men together.”
“I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.”

Source : "CANNES Q&A: Jennifer Lynch Explores Her Fears in Market Title ‘A Fall From Grace’" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. May 23, 2012.

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