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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws (System Quotes)
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall (System Quotes)
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate (System Quotes)
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system (System Quotes)
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom (System Quotes)
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses (System Quotes)
My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world (System Quotes)
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing (System Quotes)
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation (System Quotes)
I didn’t know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded? (System Quotes)
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found (System Quotes)
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it (System Quotes)
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems (System Quotes)
Supposed I don’t want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed (System Quotes)
Risk always looks different when you’re beating the system than when you’ve been beaten (System Quotes)
She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn’t a reason in the world not to find her appealing (System Quotes)
A belief system is nothing more than a thought you’ve thought over and over again (System Quotes)
What is a god? A God is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe (System Quotes)
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science (System Quotes)
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don’t win with a lot of treble (System Quotes)
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up (System Quotes)
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten (System Quotes)
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex (System Quotes)
As the Nation’s primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery (System Quotes)
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil (System Quotes)
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study (System Quotes)
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around (System Quotes)
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans (System Quotes)
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter (System Quotes)
She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her (System Quotes)