Scanner Darkly Quotes

#1. Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you. Now I'll go and close it'." "So

Franz Kafka

#2. We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

Elizabeth Lesser

#3. If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

#4. My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

Mike Myers

#5. The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

Naomi Wood

#6. Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

Crowder

#7. If you're just getting into the comics, start with Runaways, a series about teenagers who discover their parents are supervillains.

Sam Maggs

#8. In wretched little lives like that, someone must intervene. Or at least mark their sad comings and goings. Mark and if possible permanently record so they'll be remembered. For a better day, later on, when people will understand.

Philip K. Dick

#9. Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Patrick Marber

#10. Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

John Updike

#11. It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#12. Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your turns. The Latin for 'make' is facere, which also reminds me of fuckere, which is Latin for 'to fuck', and I haven't ...

Philip K. Dick

#13. In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

Philip K. Dick

#14. I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

Anne Carson

#15. Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe