#perhaps

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #aware #become #brutal #does

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. ↗

— Seth Godin

#book #buy #going #good #good reason

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ↗

— Amy Tan

#comes #desperation #inspiration #kindness #knows

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#away #catastrophe #deal #energy #environment

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#been #being #closer #contact #deprived

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#back #developments #future #hold #important

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#collapse #could #event #explosion #first

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know? ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#certainly #david #i #imagination #know

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#approximate #been #commons #discovery #estate