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“Ultimately, our obsession with celebrities isn't about them; it's about us and our needs. Many of us look at these people—who have glamour, beauty, wealth, and youth—and familiarize ourselves with them until they begin to feel like real people in our lives. We discuss them at work, in the park, and over dinner. We develop feelings for them. We love them, or hate them, or pity them, or profess not to care but secretly do.”
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“Silvery moonlight illuminated the landscape around them, which was an undulating terrain of treetops as far as the eye could see.”
― Nightfall
― Nightfall
“What do you say when I sneeze?"Anton repeated. "Bless you," Kana replied. "Right, but why do you say it?" Kana shrugged. "Sometimes in life, we do things simply because we have always done them,' explained Anton. "Perhaps there were once reasons, but we have forgotten them. A very long time ago, people believed that whenever a person sneezed, their soul exploded out through their mouths and into the air. They also believed that the devil was always lurking about and might snatch up that soul. So they said bless you, to stall the devil until the soul could shoot back down into the person's body." "That's nonsense," said Marin, throwing her hands in the air. "You're probably right," said Anton. "But you still say bless you. And until a moment ago, you didn't even know why.”
― Nightfall
― Nightfall
“I’d be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were efficient.”
― Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
― Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
“…only children entertain the fantasy that adults know how and why everything works. Being an adult is accepting the not knowing.”
― Nightfall
― Nightfall
“Only children entertain the fantasy that adults know how and why everything works. Being an adult is accepting the not knowing.”
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