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Quotes About Consequence

Ali sada je prekasno, put do nivoa pakla je poplo?an naknadnim pretpostavkama.
~ Philip K. Dick
McFeyffe, Hamilton said, you're going to have to forgive me. Why? Because I'm going to do something fruitless and futile. Because, even though I realize it's useless, I'm going to kick the living Jesus out of you.
~ Philip K. Dick
O pior aspecto do suicídio é que você decide fazer isso e não dá para desistir e mudar de ideia. Como essas pessoas que tentam se matar com o escapamento do carro e viram um vegetal. Alguém as tira de lá e as salva, mas elas destruíram todos os neurônios por causa do monóxido de carbono.
~ Philip K. Dick
Men of thought, Anita said. Not men of action. It's begun to have a paralyzing effect.
~ Philip K. Dick
It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice.
~ Philip Pullman
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We
~ Philip Pullman
and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
~ Philip Pullman
Was I wrong?" "Yes, of course. But you had no choice." "I must have." "No, you had to do it. If you hadn't done it, you'd have felt feeble." "It shouldn't be about how we feel—guilty, feeble—" "No, and it isn't. It's about wrong and less wrong. Bad and less bad. This is about as good a cover as anyone could find. Leave it at that.
~ Philip Pullman
Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
~ Philip Pullman
You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. And I ain't sure I like that any more than a war I'm enlisted in without knowing about it. Where's my free will, if you please?
~ Philip Pullman
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous.
~ Philip Pullman
then?" Tialys asked Will. "What then? Well
~ Philip Pullman
In fact, it was that which killed him, to his great surprise.
~ Philip Pullman
No importa cuánto sepas, no importa cuánto pienses, no importa cuánto maquines, finjas y planees, no estás por encima del sexo. Es un juego muy arriesgado. Uno no tendría dos tercios de los problemas que tiene si no corriera el albur de la jodienda. El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.
~ Philip Roth
I saw that everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.
~ Philip Roth
Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it's the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliché that's so insufferable. What we know is that, in an unclichéd way, nobody knows anything. You can't know anything. The things you know you don't know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All the we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
~ Philip Roth
Dejó de beber. Eso lo mató. No podía soportarlo, pero lo había prometido
~ David Foster Wallace
If time travel is the ultimate personal freedom, then it's also the ultimate personal responsibility.
~ David Gerrold