Top 20 Jenny Diski Quotes
#1. In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
Plato
#2. Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too
Richard Brautigan
#4. Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.
Jenny Diski
#5. There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
Thomas Browne
#6. There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.
Jenny Diski
#7. It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.
Jenny Diski
#8. Yeah, even if I see a human with a Shinigami, I tell you.-Ryuk
Tsugumi Ohba
#9. Statistics are designed to keep you safe.
Jenny Diski
#10. There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage;
1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.
Joe Rogan
#11. Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love.
And then some git brought me back to life
Yahtzee Croshaw
#13. Everything passes, but nothign entirely goes away.
Jenny Diski
#14. For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.
Jenny Diski
#15. Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
Jenny Diski
#16. Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom ... there is no lower deep for him.
Mark Twain
#17. Inordinate love creates inordinate, uncontrollable anguish if anything goes wrong with the object of our greatest hope.
Timothy Keller
#18. Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
Agatha Christie
#19. From a just fraud God turneth not away.
Aeschylus
#20. Many decisions are based on beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future value of the dollar.
Daniel Kahneman
