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#bigness

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The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.


Eric Johnston


#bigness #dinosaur #eloquent #good #lesson

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in a hat. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look meant. He put it somewhere between indifference and despair. He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent. Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from, poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace, Worse Things kept happening. So Small God laughed a hollow laugh, and skipped away cheerfully. Like a rich boy in shorts. He whistled, kicked stones. The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune. He climbed into people’s eyes and became an exasperating expression.


Arundhati Roy


#despair #desperation #exasperation #eyes #indifference

Bigness is better.


Thomas Leonard


#bigness

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.


David Ogilvy


#excellence #less #more #profitable #pursuit

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.


David Rittenhouse


#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.


E. M. Forster


#mind #thrilled #vice #vulgar






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