"Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability."

-- Ben Marcus

#Embrace Quotes #Judaism Quotes #Complexity Quotes

“Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.”
“Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.”
“Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.”
“Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.”
“Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.”
“For me, the biggest champions out there are not just on the field, but also off the field. Some of the biggest champions around the world, the David Beckhams, the Lebron Jameses, they all hold themselves so well off the field, and do so many great things for the community and socially. So I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.”
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.125, Penguin

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