“Setup: Alicia (the scientist) is speaking to an elementary school class about what she does. She’s just taken scads of questions from several young boys. The teachers says, “Maybe you could talk for a little bit about what it’s like… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it occurs to me that I think about you more than I ought to think about anything besides physics. Look at Nikola Tesla.… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first time I have told a story. There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but the fragments of phrases that signalled their telling: once upon a time ; why… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share
“A number of terrible things about falling in love make it not worth the time and the effort. But the worst of these is that we can never truly fall in love with a person, but only what we think that person is - more precisely, we fall in love with an image of a person that we create in… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share
“Write down everything you remember. You’ll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all the sharp… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Hello, Tracey Wilson, from the great state of Illinois! I think Fanny and Alexander is a great choice for a weekend rental. It’s one… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I’m very self-motivated,” she’d state with an assertiveness that she didn’t quite feel in her gut, and the HR guy would look down at the paper in front of him and then back up at her blankly, as if to say, No, that’s not today’s password. Then she’d follow with something like “I’m also committed to life-long learning,” and the… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share
“You had a duty not to squander your human potential. You were supposed to go out and shape the world in your image. Just—”… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.” — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted threads of… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“If there are very few eureka moments, then at least there are a thousand little failures, that point the way toward a hundred little… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“There are no new stories in the world anymore, and no more storytellers. There is nothing left but fragments of phrases that signaled their telling: once upon a time; why; and then; the end. But these phrases have lost their meanings through endless repetition, like everything else in this modern, mechanical age. And this machine age has no room for… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share
