"I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates."

-- Ellen Page

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“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”

Source : "University officials vs alcohol". Lubos Motl's blog, motls.blogspot.nl. October 11, 2007.
“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”
“Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.”
“There is no plan B for passion”
“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”
“Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.”
“Life is the mode of action of proteins.”
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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