Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
~ James Gleick
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Category Archives: zz35 – Quote Unquote
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As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Being a big black man in America, I literally do not know how to conduct myself in a physical space. I don’t know how to meet people without it seeming intimidating. I don’t know if I should wear glasses, if I should try to look extra gay, if I should stand up, sit down, wave my ID, not reach for an ID. I don’t know.
~ Marlon James
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He was yesterday’s idea of a modern man: strong but vulnerable, brooding until he had something profound to say, deeply flawed but right when it counted. Sam Shepard’s plays are full of anxiety, uncertainty, violence, and the raw friction that pushes men and women, fathers and sons, further away from each other in the grappling match of family life.
~ Michael O’Donnell via The Atlantic
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A gentleman can live through anything.
~ William Faulkner
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need institutional free-speech policies? The point of speech rules is to allow space for the unguarded and the ill-tempered, for the provocative and prickly person as well as the smooth and sinuous. The smooth and sinuous will seldom say anything worth hearing in the first place.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte
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When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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