"I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it)."

-- Umberto Eco

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“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.”
“But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!”
“The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.”
“The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.”
“The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.”
“You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.20, Macmillan
“There is no unemployment in eco-systems”

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