Josh Bazell quotes

“what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.”
-- Josh Bazell

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“Ah, youth. It's like ***** you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”
-- Josh Bazell

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“It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.”
-- Josh Bazell

Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.29, Random House

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“When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away.”
-- Josh Bazell

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“Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.”
-- Josh Bazell

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“You should never bother trying to remember where you put something. You should just imagine needing to put it somewhere now, then go to the place you pick. Because why would you pick a different location now than you did earlier? Your personality is more stable than that. It's not like we wake up each day as different people. It's just that we don't trust ourselves.”
-- Josh Bazell

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“Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.”
-- Josh Bazell

Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.108, Random House

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”

“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”