10 quotes
Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.
The Big Time (1958)
Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.
The Big Time (1958)
Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
The Big Time (1958)
It’s this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos — and don’t tell me that isn’t in the cards! — masquerading as benign omniscient authority.
The Big Time (1958)
I know only too well from a personal experience that is number one on my list of things to be forgotten.
The Big Time (1958)
Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past’s mistakes and the future’s fears.
The Big Time (1958)
What have I always told you about Soldiers? The bigger the gripe, the smaller the cause! It is infallible!
The Big Time (1958)
For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone?
The Big Time (1958)
Sometimes I wonder if our memories are as good as we think they are and if the whole past wasn’t once entirely different from anything we remember, and we’ve forgotten that we forgot.
The Big Time (1958)
In the wake of a Big Change, cultures and individuals are transposed, it’s true, yet in the main they continue much as they were, except for the usual scattering of unfortunate but statistically meaningless accidents.
The Big Time (1958)