"It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter."

-- Michael Grant

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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.”
“You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.”
“I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.”
“Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.”

Source : "The very fabric of society is breaking down around us. What the hell is there left to believe in?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2009.
“If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.”
“There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.327, Macmillan

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