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I Am Radar QUOTES

I Am Radar QUOTES

1 " This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

2 " Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

3 " WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

4 " To see the stars, you must be able to first see the night. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

5 " N.B.: Do you think the artist becomes more critical to society in wartime? M.D.: The artist is always critical to society, even though the artist must end up hating society. War happens when society forgets its artists. N.B.: War happens for many reasons. M.D.: War happens for only one reason: we cannot see past our own death.2 “No "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

6 " Change is the only force that keeps us alive. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

7 " The Japanese have a saying: Shiranu ga hotake. It means: You must be prepared not to know what you want to know, you must be prepared for the question to be the answer. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

8 " The Sami have a saying: ‘En rein som star stille, er ikke en rein.’ ‘A stick reindeer is not a reindeer.’ Migration is a part of their being. To move is to exist. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

9 " Her sister was cursed with the unexamined libertarian ignorance that only the very privileged could espouse: she believed everything that happened to you, good or bad, was the result of your own choosing. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

10 " Books, the cataloging of books, that pursuit without end, was the only way to quell the panic. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

11 " It was the kind of collision where there was no time for courtship, where two wounded planets lock into orbit and can never quite free themselves from the insistence of their gravitational pull. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

12 " And then everything imploded, suddenly, as if it had always been meant to implode like this, as if time were only a prelude to all that which must come to an end. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

13 " Sometimes, glimpsing the divine just once was enough. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

14 " Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, people are often confused by it. Heisenberg stated that both the position and velocity of a particle cannot simultaneously be known. You measure one, the other will always remain uncertain. The observation affects that which is observed. This is where people confuse the issue. It’s not the act of observation which makes things inherently uncertain - it’s the system itself which is uncertain. We blame it on us, the observers, but this is merely a convenient excuse, for the uncertainty is actually built into the world. A particle can never have two definite attributes - direction and position. If your define one, the other fades into indetermination. And so: there is no way to know everything. You must choose your knowledge. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

15 " All of a sudden, she was enveloped by a kind of vertigo -- she had felt this sensation before, though she could not remember when. It was a feeling of being not herself, of being trapped in the wrong body, as if she had recently been miscast in a play that was her own life. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

16 " Of the seventeen thousand prisoners who passed through Tuol Sleng, only seven survived. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

17 " You have to get out of yourself to know who you are. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

18 " She is brief, this life, and then she leaves us when she realizes her mistake. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

19 " It’s okay to be scared, it means you have something to live for. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar

20 " If you admit you are uncertain, than you are that much closer to certainly. "

― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar