"Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning."

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Source : Mark Slouka (2013). “Brewster”, p.41, Portobello Books

Mark Slouka

#Drowning Quotes #Save Me Quotes

“Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.”
“By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.”
“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”
“If you have to explain about how something's supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.”
“My Dad says that we're the meanest to the ones we love because we know they'll still love us.”
“A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.”
“Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.”
“The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.”

Source : Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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