quotes about Porcupines

“The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.”

“Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.”

“Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”

Source : Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”

“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”

“I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.”

“Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.”

“The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love”

“As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.”