"I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected"

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Robin Sloan

#Together Quotes #Littles Quotes #World Quotes

“My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.”
“I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.”
“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”
“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
“I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.”
“Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.”
“I miss him, my lady.â€ â€œWell, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.â€ â€œTrue. But we are no longer compatibleâ€”I am a werewolf; he is a vampire.â€ â€œSo?â€ â€œSo we cannot dance the same dance we used to.â€ Biffy was so sweet when he tried to be circumspect. Alexia shook her head at him. â€œBiffy, and I mean this in the kindest way possible: then you should change the music.â€ â€œVery good, my lady.”
“For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.”

Source : Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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