[cmgxyz]

> TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE

This has always stuck with me. I’m not well enough read to know if he borrowed it from somewhere, but I’m not sure Terry Pratchett ever wrote finer words than those. Beautifully concise and apt summary of the human condition.

[dmurray]

A variation of that quote is in a book by Robert Ardrey in 1961:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Ardrey

[totetsu]

and maybe related to Nietzsche's "Man is a rope" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/384722-man-is-a-rope-stretc...