"As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move."

-- James Salter

#Moving Quotes #Games Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes

“Are all men in disguise except those crying?”

Source : Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage
“Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.”
“Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.”
“The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.”
“I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate, civic, criminal and military. The great genius of the Internet is its interconnectedness, but this is also what makes it an incredibly difficult problem when things start to go wrong with it and when people exploit for their own purposes.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar.”
“Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.”
“Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.”

Source : Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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