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“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 299
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“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States
As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Context: I was on par with the Creator of the Universe there in the dark in the cocktail lounge. I shrunk the Universe to a ball exactly one light-year in diameter. I had it explode. I had it disperse itself again.
Ask me a question, any question. How old is the Universe? It is one half-second old, but the half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. Who created it? Nobody created it. It has always been here.
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail, like this:
This is the snake which uncoiled itself long enough to offer Eve the apple, which looked like this:
What was the apple which Eve and Adam ate? It was the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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An American and France (1936)
