"The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones."

-- James K. Morrow

#Tombstone Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”
“Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.”
“It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.”
“Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.”
“Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together”

Source : Issa Kobayashi (1960). “The year of my life”
“A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.”
“I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.”
“So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...”

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