From *Foucault’s Pendulum* – “The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idee fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.”
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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I’m hoping my post will inspire a great book to read due to your favorite line!
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I forget which Dresden Files book it’s from but I keep coming back to
If you build a man a fire he’s warm for one night. If you set a man on fire he’s warm for the rest of his life.
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“Vampires perform their own miracles. They steal a hundred fresh loaves and fishes, and redistribute a few moldy slices and rotten heads. Their miracle of scarcity is genuine, you see, the vampires have no idea how they achieve this miracle. It baffles them. It angers them. It outrages them. Yet, it does not discourage them” (p. 66, *Vampire Nation* by Thomas M. Sipos).
*Vampire Nation* is an allegorical tale. The “vampires” represent the communist bureaucrats in Ceausescu’s Romania.
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“When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king.” That’s the first line in Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry. YA, yes, but also timeless.
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I have two
Leave the guns, take the cannoli. The Godfather
Please Doc, stop calling me that, I’m not Lula Mae anymore. Breakfast At Tiffany’s
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From *Foucault’s Pendulum* – “The lunatic, on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself at all with logic; he works by short circuits. For him, everything proves everything else. The lunatic is all idee fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I’m hoping my post will inspire a great book to read due to your favorite line!
I forget which Dresden Files book it’s from but I keep coming back to
If you build a man a fire he’s warm for one night. If you set a man on fire he’s warm for the rest of his life.
“Vampires perform their own miracles. They steal a hundred fresh loaves and fishes, and redistribute a few moldy slices and rotten heads. Their miracle of scarcity is genuine, you see, the vampires have no idea how they achieve this miracle. It baffles them. It angers them. It outrages them. Yet, it does not discourage them” (p. 66, *Vampire Nation* by Thomas M. Sipos).
*Vampire Nation* is an allegorical tale. The “vampires” represent the communist bureaucrats in Ceausescu’s Romania.
“When I was nine years old, I hid under a table and heard my sister kill a king.” That’s the first line in Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry. YA, yes, but also timeless.
I have two
Leave the guns, take the cannoli. The Godfather
Please Doc, stop calling me that, I’m not Lula Mae anymore. Breakfast At Tiffany’s