I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that's killing me. . Sue Grafton
To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
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Cassandra Clare
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Carl Sagan
Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for...
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Thomas A. Edison
It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.
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James Fenton
[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a woman dissolving into violence, desperately weakening everything he tried to do. For how could learning and poetry be defended when it produced such...
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Iain Pears
More Quotes By Sue Grafton
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
