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"It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis."
"Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap."
"And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend"
"Ka works and the world moves on."
"Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world."
"If you can read in the 21st century you own the world."
"A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around."
"It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have."
"The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that."
"Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world."
"Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do."
"You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked."
"No critic ever changed the world."
"...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums."
"Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours."
"The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else."
"One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine."
"Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world."
"It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy."
"Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster."
