"Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify."

-- Russell Kirk

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“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”
“There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.”
“I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.”
“Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. "Drunk?" I objected. "You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again.”
“Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.”
“Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.”

Source : Robert Crais (2013). “Voodoo River”, p.23, Hachette UK
“What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.”
“Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city”

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