"...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Dark Quotes #Self Quotes #Age Quotes

“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart....”
“Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."”
“I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.”
“The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.”
“The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.”
“I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should.”
“The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.”
“What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?”

Source : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “The Middleman and Other Stories”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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