Quotes to remember

Magical Realist said:
Why is there something instead of nothing? Number 1 answer I've found:

"The easiest way to show that there must be something rather than nothing is to try to define nothing. Nothing must have no properties: No size. No shape. No position. No mass-energy, forces, wave forms, or anything else you can think of. No time, no past, no present, no future. And finally, no existence. Therefore there must be something. And this is it."----Larry Curley, Sawtry, Huntingdon, UK
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"Nothing is where everything else isn't." (Some time in 14 years at Purdue, but damned if I remember who.)
 
"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable."--Carrie Fisher

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The great Jack Kerouac died on this day in 1969:

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”'

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‘But paradise is locked and bolted … we must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open …’ - Heinrich von Kleist

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“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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"Once you were apes, and even now
man is more of an ape than any ape.
But he who is the wisest among you,
he also is only a discord and hybrid
of plant and of ghost."---Friedrich Nieztche
 
“Carter thought the Universe was a lot like God, except that the Universe didn't have a book telling you how to be and who to hate.”
― Marshall Thornton, My Favorite Uncle
 
"Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language."----Mark Pagel
 
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