What’s a line from a book that you think about a lot?
For me: “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
For me: “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”
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Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Frank Herbert
To be fair I just read that book so it’s recency bias for me.
Hopefully will remember to come back and settle on my own contribution.
The opening line to a book I read in high school that has never left my brain. It's such a good, funny setup.
Kind of hypocritical
Pratchett, Small Gods
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move
This always gets me to grin when I think about it.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
― George Orwell, 1984
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Billy likes people, and he likes to keep them at arms’ length. It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not.”
Hurray for both!