The art of living consists in knowing how to discern conditions and weigh the probabilities of their unfolding.
Jacques Barzun
The Culture We Deserve (1989) p. 84
Archive for June, 2008
Knowing someone so well that you could anticipate their responses to most things should make their responses easier to bear but in practise often does the opposite.
John Lanchester
Mr Phillips (2000) p. 107
“Well, I’ve never liked anyone who drove a coupe. Man or woman.” She said this like it was logical.
Catherine Clark
Wurst Case Scenario (2001) p. 264
Shortly after he and Francis Crick had discovered of the structure of the DNA molecule, James Watson was flying to Los Angeles for a meeting on proteins at Caltech. He writes that “under my arm was the red-and-green display model of the double helix, leading a stewardess to think I was an artist. So I felt pleasantly important…”
James Watson
Genes, Girls, and Gamow (2001) p. 40
Genes, Girls, and Gamow (2001) p. 40
I stare at the broken glass on the floor that surrounds the bed, thinking: that’s a cool album cover.
Bret Easton Ellis
The Informers (1994) p. 108
The Informers (1994) p. 108
The mark of a civilized human is the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep.
Bertrand Russell
myth-take
With so much information to digest, I could see how one might have trouble mounting a heroic response to the age. I mean, can you take a mythic journey in a toll road?
Tom Grimes
WILL@epicqwest.com (2003) p. 14
WILL@epicqwest.com (2003) p. 14
