Gavin Extence quotes
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“When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.”
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“If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?”
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“I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.”
-- Gavin ExtenceSource : Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.73, Hachette UK
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“Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.”
-- Gavin ExtenceSource : Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.67, Hachette UK
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“The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
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“Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.”
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“In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.”
-- Gavin ExtenceSource : Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.344, Hachette UK
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
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Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
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“Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.”
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