"We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works"

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Gabrielle Zevin

#Stories Quotes #Ends Quotes #Novel Quotes

“The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.”
“[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.”

Source : "Theo de Raadt Responds". bsd.slashdot.org. December 11, 2000.
“Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?”

Source : Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1955). “Timber in Your Life”
“When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language.”
“Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.”
“For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1944). “Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts”
“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”

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