Quote From a Book

[JBR]

2nd time I've posted this but feel the need for it again:

"If you tell enough little boys that they should get everything they desire, eventually one of them will have desires so fierce they collapse in on themselves and become a superdense gravity well, drawing everything to themselves."

Yes, but seems to me a question for our times is whether the oligarchic autocrats like the process of everything being 'drawn to themselves'? (Thinking here of a type of person, no specific autocrat in particular. )

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

 

[gruntlabor]

I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Yes, it was not a healthy, carefree mind that dreamed up that remark

 

[officerripley]

"If you say that it is just business, I cannot guarantee the placidity of my reaction."

~~from The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North