“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.”
“Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up.”
“If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.”
“In anthropology, things were mostly Stone Age: Yanomamo, Mbuti, !Kung - Susan once had it in her mind to learn how it had been before it all got fucked up, but soon tossed the notion, concluding that things have never been not fucked up. [-'Jonah Sees Ghosts']”
“If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.”