"Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside."

-- Anne Carson

#Block Quotes #White Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.”
“One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.”
“It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.”
“We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist”
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
“The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot”
“Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.”

Source : James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books
“Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.”

Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.

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