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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.


Kurt Vonnegut


#humor #sarcastic-humor #satire #humor

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.


Edith Sitwell


#i #i wish #incompetent #pianos #put

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.


Julie Powell


#humor #humor

The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen #humor

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?


Criss Jami


#attention-span #confidence #genius #gifted #imagination

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.


Stanisław Lem


#existence #existentialism #god #humanity #imperfection

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#tension #unhappiness #imagination

what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible and imaginable contingency and contradiction, Life. Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, piles of corpses. what can you do about it, my poor friend?


Blaise Cendrars


#existentialism #nietzsche #nihilism #imagination

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.


Paolo Bacigalupi


#life #nature #potential #inspirational

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?


Richard Buckminster Fuller


#humanity #inspirational #today #inspirational






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