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“When we go, so does the world as we  have known it, for it is known only by us and therefore only within us. At least, so some of the empiricists believe – but such beliefs are only another form of faith.”
― Peter Grainger, The Rags of Time

“Too much was changing too quickly now, and at the same time he was losing the ability to adapt to change. A natural process, just the way of things, and if one resists it for too long one becomes bitter and then foolish and then a danger to others. He had seen these things happen to older men before him, and he was lucky – he could choose not to have it happen to him. He had done so.”
― Peter Grainger, Time and Tide

“You think it’s just selfishness?’ ‘Just? Makes it sound trivial. All crime is caused by selfishness, I say. It’s the ‘Me first, my needs first’. Take that away and you’re about one step from paradise. Don’t ask me what the last step is, I don’t know, but it sounds good.”
― Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death

“Problems are just opportunities looked at the wrong way round – that’s what the positive thinkers say, isn’t it?”
― Peter Grainger, The Rags of Time

“Regret is pointless, but so is experience if you don’t learn from it.”
― Peter Grainger, Persons of Interest