In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings—artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers—to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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This is very cool (and unexpected):
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...the key sometimes is not to be prepared. Wait and see. Don't prepare for wars by having huge military bases all over the world, four hundred bases. Don't prepare for terrorists by creating a homeland bureaucracy. Don't expect people to hate one another. Wait and see what happens.
Nicholson Baker, Traveling Sprinkler
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I see a future in which we interact more and more emotionally with our machines (and other imaginative creations) while becoming less and less emotionally invested in other people.
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Pay attention to who gossips about writers' personal lives and peccadillos and who talks about their ideas.
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Only when birds no longer sing outside your window do you have to go and get a cage.
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Better the worst insult from an enemy than the slightest rebuff from a loved one.
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If we don't get to choose what we love,
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"Anything is better than nothing" is the ultimate rule (or reality) of the universe.
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