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Category: Brian McGreevy

We can’t know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we’re not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.

appeased, forget, laugh, ourselves, predicted, silly, sufferance

Of course, minute as its impact may be in our physical universe, the fact of quantum entanglement is this: If one logically inexplicable thing is known to exist, then this permits the existence of all logically inexplicable things. A thing may be of deeper impossibility than another, in the sense that you can be more deeply underwater–but whether you are five feet or five fathoms from the surface you are still all wet.

deeper, exist, fact, fathoms, feet, impact, impossibility, logically, minute, permits, physical, quantum-entanglement, surface, underwater, universe, wet

…if you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

idiot, resolution, universe

If a problem can’t be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.

conceived, frame, lies, problem, reframing, solution, solve

And if you don’t let a boy become a man, it’s no one’s fault but your own when you’re still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren.

A rich man, was one who spent a million.

man, million, rich, spent

Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.

asshole, believe, cure, life, pain, rain, summer, winter

That if a thing is defined in contrast that’s what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn’t be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn’t be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose.

bad, carnally, constantly, death, essential, life, lose, mystery, shadow, time

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don’t look down.

down, dreams, ground, lie, look, senses, solid, wake

The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great things you just learned about Siberian tigers on National Geographic was suddenly weird, but totally weird stuff in and of itself like drawing around your eyeball with a pencil became normal, and it impressed to no end that it was a product of meticulous effort that made the twins seem so perfectly and effortlessly feminine.

femininity, girls, maturity

Well what?” said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don’t know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.