"No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard."

-- Richard Kadrey

#Math Quotes #Coke Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.”
“here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
“You canâ€™t change conditionsâ€”just the way you deal with them,”
“Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.136, Vintage
“In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.”
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
“The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.”
“Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com

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