"If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?"

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Source : Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The Believer Magazine, June 2003.

Richard Rorty

#Would Be Quotes #Hell Quotes

“I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.”
“Yeah, that's a good point.”
“While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.”
“8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.149, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?”
“If you think I'm fast, just wait until you see my nephew Bruno.”
“My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.”
“If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.”

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