Quotes About Duncker

#1. A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I actually stood watching one, it seemed the easiest thing in the world.

Donna Tartt

#2. The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote.
That's what my writing was. Messages in bottles.

Patricia Duncker

#3. When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Adyashanti

#4. You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Patricia Duncker

#5. And that is the loneliness of seeing a different world from that of the people around you. Their lives remain remote from yours. You can see the gulf and they can't.

Patricia Duncker

#6. The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Patricia Duncker

#7. They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Patricia Duncker

#8. It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.

Paul Feyerabend

#9. You can say anything, anything, if it is beautifully said.

Patricia Duncker

#10. Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

Patricia Duncker

#11. I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees.

Patricia Duncker

#12. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Patricia Duncker

#13. I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

Jim Gibbons

#14. We articulate our fears, like children in the dark, giving them names in order to tame them.

Patricia Duncker

#15. There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Henry Paulson

#16. The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#17. But ... if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted?
He glittered at me for a moment, then said, I would rather be mad.

Patricia Duncker