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“I thought his lack of curiosity must be monumental, but I was wrong. It turned out that he had some queer notions about the morality of the whole process, ideas he had gotten from some weirdly aberrant religion in his childhood. I had heard of the cult, as you can hardly avoid it if you know any history. It had said little about ethics, being more interested in arbitrary regulations.”
“They understood the basic principles of morals: that nothing is moral always, and anything is moral under the right circumstances.”
“Buildings were just the world's furniture, and he didn't care how it was arranged.”
“You've got to watch yourself when you get as old as I am. You have to try new things, sometimes for no better reason than that they’re new. Otherwise you rust.”
“I don’t have much truck with romantic notions of human destiny, or Gods, or Good Guys winning out in the end. I have seen destiny in action, and I can tell you, it stinks.”
“By then I was sure the universe could no longer surprise me, nor interest me. I was wrong. It managed to do both in no more than ten minutes.”
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John Albert Varley was a British photographer, who spent the majority of his career working for The Daily Mirror. He famously took coloured photos at the 1966 FIFA World Cup final, which at the time was seen as a novelty. Varley also took photos of war zones, including Nigeria and Northern Ireland.
