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All Galileo said, all Darwin said, was, “It doesn’t have to be the way we thought it was.”
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. —RICHARD DAWKINS, The Selfish Gene (1976)
Robert Harris • The Fear Index
They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
Douglas Adams • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
cars sheening by with the special lonely sound of cars in rain,
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
He and Hal exchanged the very slight sorts of nods people use when they like each other past all need for politeness.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
And who could not love that special and leonine roar of a public toilet?
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
“Everyone dies,” Barrie said almost to himself, “if you tell the story long enough.”
Kevin Emerson • The Shores Beyond Time (Chronicle of the Dark Star Book 3)
