This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.


“This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one?”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Where's a good one?”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon

“What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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