Random Quotations
 

"Well...yes, and here we go again. Indeed."
—Hunter S. Thompson

"We have a book to write about the Gulf of California. We could do one of several things about its design. But we have decided to let it form itself: its boundaries a boat and a sea; its duration a six weeks' charter time; its subject everything we could see and think and even imagine; its limits—our own without reservation."
—John Steinbeck (Log from the Sea of Cortez)

"A symbolic labyrinth. An invisible labyrinth of time... After more than a hundred years, most of the details are irrecoverable, lost beyond all recall, but it isn't hard to imagine what must have happened. At one time, Ts'u Pen must have said: 'I am going into seclusion to write a book,' and at another, 'I am retiring to construct a maze.' Everyone assumed these were separate activities. No one realised that the book and the labyrinth were one and the same..."
—Jorge Luis Borges (The Garden of Forking Paths)

"Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning."
—Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity."
—Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

"My library was dukedom large enough."
—William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

"Not my style at all, but that is what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical: if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy..."
—William Gibson (Johnny Neumonic)

"...streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent..."
—T.S. Eliot (on London?)

"Don't panic."
—Douglas Adams

 

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