X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=533fdc43bae3bbb7f0636fda0b2cc8a8e388158c;hb=24bd15557ed361c730a1d80229b943dd67aad181;hp=33c9986f9c22ceee4636cc5dcba4b399afb97d28;hpb=bf61639bb6b5d19270bc02a5b99b8c097d176b6b;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 33c9986..533fdc4 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -1060,3 +1060,18 @@ that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary. -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140 +% +I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless +thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It +looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing. +[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything. + -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117 +% +Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men +who send young men out to die. + -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73) +% +"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress +disorder?" [...] +"Who isn't?" + -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121