Life will forever be open to us. We will never know that it cannot be expressed more beautifully. The beauty in the world is growing.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
The gold bangle on the bony wrist was like a padlock on a canvas door which a fist could break.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
A tent, above all for a solitary traveler, is troublesome to pitch; and even on the march it forms a conspicuous feature in your baggage.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Making things look easy is hard. Clarity requires depth.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Home: it was a phrase one used to mean four walls behind which one slept. There had never been a home.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
…his heart moved painfully, as when a man in love hears a stranger name a flower which is also the name of his woman.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
My master taught me that the shortest path to ruins was underestimating one’s opponent.
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random wood-side nook in Gevaudan – not knowing north from south, as strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an inland castaway – was to find a fraction of my daydreams realized.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Information is defined only once you have defined who is talking to whom and in what context.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion