"We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses"

-- Berl Katznelson

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“I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.”
“Rooney's good but not the best in Manchester.”
“Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.”
“I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.”
“When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.”
“Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.”
“The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force. She has become rich but she has become enslaved and part of her is veiled in secrecy. I do not know whether Rutherford would continue to joke and laugh as he used to.”
“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”

Source : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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