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Jesse Ball quotes: That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Jesse Ball quotes: But dreams are imagined. They are a work of the imagination.

But dreams are imagined. They are a work of the imagination.

Jesse Ball quotes: We tire differently if we love or love not.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Jesse Ball quotes: We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.-Piet Soron, 1847

We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.
-Piet Soron, 1847

Jesse Ball quotes: And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons of air.

And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons of air.

Jesse Ball quotes: Are we not all the same? Do we not all strive to simply have enough?

Are we not all the same? Do we not all strive to simply have enough?

Jesse Ball quotes: This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

Jesse Ball quotes: No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

Jesse Ball quotes: She said she hadn't thought of that. Not finishing the test might be part of the test.

She said she hadn't thought of that. Not finishing the test might be part of the test.

Jesse Ball quotes: It is an enduring satisfaction for our species to make little systems and tend to them.

It is an enduring satisfaction for our species to make little systems and tend to them.

Jesse Ball quotes: A statue in the center of a town: sometimes is a god, and other times, it is something upon which to hang laundry.

A statue in the center of a town: sometimes is a god, and other times, it is something upon which to hang laundry.

Jesse Ball quotes: We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want?

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want?

Jesse Ball quotes: If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won't argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.

If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won't argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.

Jesse Ball quotes: Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Jesse Ball quotes: The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.

The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.

Jesse Ball quotes: Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts.

Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts.

Jesse Ball quotes: If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Jesse Ball quotes: If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.

If they make you put on a suit, it's because they are going to do something horrible to you. I guarantee it.

Jesse Ball quotes: -A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

-A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

Jesse Ball quotes: It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

Jesse Ball quotes: Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!

Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!

Jesse Ball quotes: I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Jesse Ball quotes: It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.

It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.

Jesse Ball quotes: Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Jesse Ball quotes: Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.

Jesse Ball quotes: We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.

Jesse Ball quotes: The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

Jesse Ball quotes: Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.

Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.

Jesse Ball quotes: I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?

I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?