"Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence."

-- Robert Cormier

#Stars Quotes #Cities Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”
“Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.”
“Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.”
“I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.”
“Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.”
“How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.”
“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..”
“And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.”

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