69 Quotes About Pattern
- Author Donna Tartt
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But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.
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- Author John Brunner
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Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man’s nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.
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- Author Gretchen McCulloch
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Even when something looks incoherent to an outsider, even when it's intended as incoherent for an insider, we as humans are still practically incapable of doing things without patterns.
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- Author Benoît B. Mandelbrot
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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern.
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- Author Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
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Gods – all gods, I think – are just spells that keep going. Like waterwheels powered by the passage of souls, maybe. Prayer strengthens them, and so does residuum, the portion of the soul that remains in the corpse after death. The gods are not omniscient or omnipotent, just very different from us. More powerful in some ways, but locked into patterns of behaviour they cannot change, so they’re not really sentient, I suppose. Saints are p-p-points of congruency between our world and theirs.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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We certainly are an odd bunch.""Yes. Seven people. Odd.
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- Author Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
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