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Sergio De La Pava Quotes

But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted

But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

Sergio De La Pava
Laughter, Philosophy, Men

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

Sergio De La Pava
Meaningful, Fun, Intellectual
Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.400, University of Chicago Press

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Sergio De La Pava
Tables, Boxes, Obvious
Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain because you helped put him there. That's why I never vote, so I can later complain.

Sergio De La Pava
Fun, Winning, Guy
Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

Sergio De La Pava
Average, Offending, Campaigns
Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.311, University of Chicago Press

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Sergio De La Pava
Loneliness, Lightning, Connections

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