Quotable quotes

Memorable quotes from some books I read in recent past
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"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors"

"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies"
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

“The only thing you have to do in this life is die,... Everything else is a choice.”

The Age of Miracles - Karen Thomson Walker

"Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? (This is an old argument in the field of Thinking About Suffering, and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.)"

"... all felt Romantic, but not romantic."

"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory."

"You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

"quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies"
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green


"A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you."
UR - Stephen King

"It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Old Man And the Sea - Earnest Hemingway


"No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful"

"People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up"

"I’d come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn’t exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself"
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline


"magic formula of a great game — easy to learn, difficult to master"
Masters of Doom - David Kushner


"You’d be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing."

"Maybe she’s afraid that if I can’t have her, I won’t want her."
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak


"I’m reminded of a wise man who once said that he would never want to join a club that would have him for a member."
The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi


"Because substitutes that cannot be substituted are generally called identities"

"Bobby seems to be asking, in bold Helvetica type and in all earnestness"
Self-Reference Engine - Toh EnJoe


"... you’ve seen a room where the gravity has failed twice in different directions"

"You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too."

"It struck me that if you could train your mind to operate when awake as it does in your sleep, then you could dream while you were awake, and see a different world"
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith


"No one ever sees what is behind the mirror."
Unknown


"That which, being added to another does not make it greater, and being taken away from another does not make it less, is nothing"
The History of Calculus and its conceptual development - Carl Boyer


"People thought languages were just substitution puzzles"
Damocles - S. G. Redling


"The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition."
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne


"Alicia made her mouth into a ~"

"Immortality is a mass event"

"Anticlimax is the currency of mortality"
Anticopernicus - Adam Robers


"... number-one goal of all computer users is to not feel stupid."

"The essence of good interaction design is to devise interactions that let users achieve their practical goals without violating their personal goals."
The Inmates are running the Asylum - Alan Cooper