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Emil Ostrovski QUOTES

Emil Ostrovski QUOTES

1 " We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

2 " Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

3 " This is closest we'll ever be. This is our escape. Our secret closet, our letter of invitation to Hogwarts, our death-star run. After this we're back to the real world, and from there the hill slopes down and only stops at six feet under. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

4 " But—but in falling, we fly, don’t we? We fly vertically. That’s the paradox of vertical flight. Falling is the only way we can fly. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

5 " ...true friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you’re lucky. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

6 " Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one...So yes, we can be wrong. Yes the world's a messy place. But a world in which we always knew what was right and had no choice but to do it, that would be a world of puppets. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

7 " You can't just go and ask people the questions that matter most--that would be too easy. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

8 " I love you, but sometimes I feel like slapping you. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

9 " —Claro que decidimos — [...] —. Mira, Sócrates, claro que decidimos, pero eso no quiere decir que hayamos podido tomar decisiones diferentes. ¿Qué determina nuestro modo de actuar, si no la persona que somos en el momento previo a actuar, en el momento en que decidimos lo que hacer? La pregunta no es si tomamos decisiones, sino si tenemos control sobre quiénes somos cuando tomamos esas decisiones. Y la verdad es que no creo. La persona que soy ahora está determinada por la persona que era hace un segundo, lo que digo ahora está determinado por lo que estaba pensando hace un segundo, y lo que estaba pensando hace un segundo está determinado por lo que estaba pensando el segundo anterior. Y si sigues retrocediendo segundos, al final… al final, todo, desde Tommy metiéndose en el ejército hasta el hecho de que yo no tenga muchos amigos, pasando por mi hermano, que no llegó a nacer, y, coño, si retrocedes todavía más, mi madre poniéndome a Bob Dylan cuando solo tenía tres años… todo eso conforma y determina quién soy, y por lo tanto lo que hago. Todo lo que me ha conformado determina lo que hago. Lo que hacemos y cómo actuamos no es más que la respuesta a cómo se nos ha conformado a lo largo de nuestras vidas. Nos limitamos a responder al impulso. El resultado de todas esas fuerzas causales que no controlamos actuando sobre nosotros. Eso representan las parcas. Las fuerzas causales. "

― Emil Ostrovski , The Paradox of Vertical Flight

10 " You had to know everything about everything, didn't you, in order to say the right thing at the right time, in order to draw the right metaphor out at the right moment and turn that moment into poetry. Maybe that was why the world had poets and playwrights. To give us back all the words we'd squandered. "

― Emil Ostrovski , Away We Go

11 " If you accumulate enough small moments, you become real. "

― Emil Ostrovski , Away We Go