Alan Gandy

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.  It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

About Marcel Proust

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

About Friedrich Nietzsche

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Lester Burnham: [narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn’t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time… Read the rest of this entry »

Mike (The One-Armed Man): Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds: “Fire Walk With Me”.

About Twin Peaks

The Motorcycle Boy: If you’re going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.

Benny: Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you’re young, you’re a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there… it doesn’t matter. You know. The older you get you say, “Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left.” Think about it. Thirty-five summers.