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“It is so hard to leaveuntil you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere between Mrs.W...”
“Most of us probably fall several times a day into a fit somewhat like this: The eyes are fixed on vacancy, the sounds of the world melt into a confused unity, the attention is dispersed so that the...”
“Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves;...”
“The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, ...”
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
