"It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum."

-- A. J. Liebling

#Knowledge Quotes #Survival Quotes #Anomalies Quotes

“Diabetes is caused by melancholy.”
“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
“It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage
“How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.”
“Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.”
“That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.420, Penguin
“You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.”
“Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.”

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