Pent > Pent's Quotes

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.”
― Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis

“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. [...] Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!