Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
~ Iain Banks
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
~ John Lanchester
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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus
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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him.
~ Franz Kafka
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
~ Milan Kundera
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Only entropy comes easy.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
~ Franz Kafka
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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