"I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime."

-- Delmore Schwartz

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“Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.”
“If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?”
“Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.”
“It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.”
“The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.”
“I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.”
“I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.”

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