Authority (Southern Reach #2)
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“Never do something for just one reason,”
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“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.”
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Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead
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“if someone or something is trying to jam information inside your head using words you understand but a meaning you don’t, it’s not even that it’s not on a bandwidth you can receive, it’s much worse. Like, if the message were a knife and it created its meaning by cutting into meat and your head is the receiver and the tip of that knife is being shoved into your ear over and over again…”
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he was too armored with foreknowledge anyway, and too cynical about his caution not to find himself ridiculous.