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“Neil watched the door close behind him, then sent a questioning look at Matt. Matt was studying him with a curious intensity. "Why are you so special?" Matt asked. "I'm not," Neil said, confused. "Andrew doesn't give ground to anybody. Why does he keep saying yes to you?" "He's high," Neil said, twirling a finger near his temple. "He thinks it's funny." Matt eyed him a bit longer, then shook his head and relaxed against the back of the couch again.”

“Neil, you can use the girls' shower while we're busy." Neil stared at her. "What?" Dan frowned at him, so Matt explained. "There aren't stalls here." Neil had noticed, but he hadn't thought his teammates would. That they had, and that they were doing something about it, knocked the wind out of him. He tried to answer, but he didn't know what to say. The best he managed was, "Is that really okay?" "Kid, you're killing me," Nicky said. "Why do you always get that deer-in-headlights look when someone does something nice for you?”

“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.”

“Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.”

“Nein, aber ehrlich jetzt, ich hab keine Ahnung, wieso diese Leute Anime so hassen. Meine Kunstlehrerin war auch so, eigentlich voll lieb, aber wehe, du malst irgendwas, was sie an Anime erinnert." "Weil alles, was kindisch und weiblich wirkt, in unserer Gesellschaft gern abgewertet wird. Vor allem, wenn es nichteuropäisch ist«, erklärt Tariq, als hätte er das schon hundertmal wiederholt. »Würde Maya jetzt sagen." "Wollte grad sagen, klingt typisch nach ihr. Aber stimmt doch! Immer, wenn etwas weniger maskulin wirkt – was immer die sich darunter vorstellen –, wird es sofort weniger ernst genommen. Außer man ist ein weißer Typ und heißt Andy Warhol …”

“Nein, das ist es nicht... eigentlich glaube ich, dass die Unsterblichen uns beneiden. Sie wissen nicht, wie es sich anfühlt, jeden Moment so zu geniessen wie wir. Erinnerst du dich, als wir vor ein paar Monaten einen Spaziergang bei Sonnenuntergang am Brighton Beach gemacht haben und wie wunderschön das Meer an diesem Tag geschimmert hat, wie es in der untergehenden Sonne getanzt hat? Atemberaubend! Und erinnerst du dich, was du gesagt hast? 'Aber solange wir alle Freundlichkeit üben, wo immer wir auch hingehen, und nicht aufhören, uns über diese so wunderbare und atemberaubende Welt zu wundern, wird unsere Existenz keineswegs verschwendet sein. Keineswegs! Also lasst uns einen schönen Drink nehmen, uns umarmen und vor dem wunderschönen Sonnenuntergang weinen, den wir gerade erleben werden! Und dann nach Hause gehen, zusammen schlafen und alles morgen genauso wiederholen!”

“Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht mir, sondern einem anderen Schüler, mit den Worten: "Ich werde dir deine Karriere schon verderben!" Am gleichen Tag las ich bei Storm den Spruch: "Was du immer kannst, zu werden, scheue Arbeit nicht und Wachen, aber hüte deine Seele vor dem Karrieremachen.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

“Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.”

“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a group, carriers of and teachers of the eternal verities and the higher life. The goal of humanistic studies was defined as the perception and knowledge of the good, the beautiful, and the true. Such studies were expected to refine the discrimination between what is excellent and what is not (excellence generally being understood to be the true, the good, and the beautiful). They were supposed to inspire the student to the better life, to the higher life, to goodness and virtue. What was truly valuable, Matthew Arnold said, was 'the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.' [...] No, it is quite clear from our experience of the last fifty years or so that the pre-1914 certainties of the humanists, of the artists, of the dramatists and poets, of the philosophers, of the critics, and of those who are generally inner-directed have given way to a chaos of relativism. No one of these people now knows how and what to choose, nor does he know how to defend and validate his choice.”