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“It's easy to be cynical about death when you're young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It's not real. It only affects other people. It's a bullet you'll dodge easily. It's why young people can go into battle: they really will live forever. They know.
As you stick around, as you go around the Earth, you realize that life is an ever-narrowing conveyor belt. Slowly, inexorably, it takes us all along with it, and one by one we tumble off the side of the conveyor belt into darkness. . .
They fall off the conveyor belt into the darkness, our friends, and we cannot talk to them anymore.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
As you stick around, as you go around the Earth, you realize that life is an ever-narrowing conveyor belt. Slowly, inexorably, it takes us all along with it, and one by one we tumble off the side of the conveyor belt into darkness. . .
They fall off the conveyor belt into the darkness, our friends, and we cannot talk to them anymore.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“The tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity of foresight, but refuses to use it.”
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“They are voices from the past and their actions have echoed into our world and, unknown to them, they preserved our future.”
― Beware the Midnight Train
― Beware the Midnight Train
“Looking back through my work, I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally.”
― Essays
― Essays
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