#gate

Tis the grand stupidity of our kind, dear Cutter, to see all the errors of our ways, yet find in ourselves the inability to do anything about them. We sit, dumbfounded by despair, and for all our ingenuity, our perceptivity, for all our extraordinary capacity to see the truth of things, we hunker down like snails in a flood, sucked tight to our precious pebble, fearing the moment is is dislodged beneath us. Until that terrible calamity, we do nothing but cling. "Can you even imagine a world where all crimes are punished? Where justice is truly blind and holds out no hands happy to yield to the weight of coin and influence? Where one takes responsibility for his or her mistakes, acts of negligence, the deadly consequences of indifference or laziness? Nay, instead we slip and duck, dance and dodge, dance the dodge slip duck dance, feet ablur. Ourselves transformed into shadows that flit in chaotic discord. We are indeed masters of evasion--no doubt originally a survival trait, at least in the physical sense, but to have such instincts applied to the soul is perhaps our most egregious crime against morality. What we will do so that we may continue living with ourselves. In this we might assert that a survival trait can ultimately prove its own antithesis, and in the cancelling out thereof, why, we are left with the blank, dull, vacuous expression that Kruppe sees before him." ~Kruppe, ↗

— Steven Erikson

#imagination

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#inspiration #intelligence #knowledge #malazan #malazan-book-of-the-fallen

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. ↗

— Max Lerner

#gates #hope #into #kingdom #leads

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#flat #official #pamphlet #society #version

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. ↗

— Martin Luther

#am #diligently #explaining #gates #heart

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#day #enter #gates #god #heaven

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#i #interest #investigate #life #much

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#convention #delegates #forth #hall #heat

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#age #change #culture #feel #i

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#any #between #care #continuity #decorate