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Quotes from There and Back Again — Pat Murphy

born 1955 United States

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“Imaginary solutions work quite well, as long as you realize that problems are also imaginary.”

There and Back Again (1999)

“You’ve passed the first test of leadership. You’ve disagreed with me.”

There and Back Again (1999)

“Let it be. These things have a way of becoming clear over time,“ Gyro said. And then he shrugged. “Or not. In the end, it doesn’t really matter does it?”

There and Back Again (1999)

Every point is a turning point.

There and Back Again (1999)

Piero was the sort of person that every religion needs but no religion likes. Thoughtful, rational, scientific. He asked questions and did not accept the easy answers on faith.

There and Back Again (1999)

Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?

There and Back Again (1999)

“You may learn a few things,” she said. “And that’s always good.”

There and Back Again (1999)

Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And everything is an adventure, if you take the right perspective.”
“So everything is inconvenient?” Bailey grumbled.
“Oh, yes. That’s exactly it! Life is terribly inconvenient, which makes it quite entertaining.”

There and Back Again (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pat Murphy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.