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Where this area had been beautiful with its many trees and bright grass and the colored blooms of the vines that covered the trees, it was now like a battlefield. It had been necessary to create ugliness to build a beautiful boat.
p. 87
His thinking wasn’t logical. But whatever the philosophers claimed, the main use of logic was to justify your emotions.
p. 158
Nightmare in paradise. Or what could have been paradise if so many human beings did not insist on make in a hell of it.
p. 64
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited — although some refuse to face even that fact — so new ones must be invented.”
p. 179
Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.
p. 34
He was stiff and sometimes a little strange, which was what you’d expect from an engineer, but he had a moral backbone as inflexible as a fossilized dinosaur’s.
p. 168
I ought to arrest your assertions for vagrancy. They certainly are without any visible support.
p. 160
But we may not be able to climb high enough. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.
p. 44
It was not that he was unintelligent. It was just that he was not emotionally able to comprehend democracy.
p. 119
“Would you like to talk?”
“When I dream, I am talking.”
“But to yourself.”
“Who knows me better?” He laughed softly.
“And who can deceive you better,” she said a little tartly.
p. 10
They made two thousand years ago seem like yesterday, and yesterday look like today, just as today would, in time, look like tomorrow. (p. 128).
All we can do is keep applying the creosote, propping ourselves up with health and success, trying to keep the rain and the damp and the rot at bay for a little longer, trying to postpone the moment of complete collapse of abandonment for the same reason that one waits as long as possible for the alcoholic drink of the day: because the longer you leave it, the better it will feel. (p. 227).
