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August 6 - August 7, 2024
“Oh right, you don’t have any friends. Must make life simple.
Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble in the world isn’t logic or violence. It’s humor.”
“Books have tremendous power.”
“It’s not true that the more you read, the more you see of the world. No matter how much knowledge you cram into your head, unless you think with your own mind, walk with your own feet, the knowledge you acquire will never be anything more than empty and borrowed.”
“It’s all very well to read a book, but when you’ve finished, it’s time to set foot in the world.”
reading is still fashionable. It confers status. Everyone wants to brag about reading some difficult book.
we produce information arranged by bullet point. Titles like The Five Requirements for Success or The Eight Techniques to Get Ahead in Life. People never catch on that they’re being duped, that books like these are never going to help them get ahead. But the important thing is that my goal of selling books is accomplished.”
Lmao
Sales are everything. No matter how great a masterpiece, if a work doesn’t sell it vanishes.”
“Being able to express shallow words of sympathy in a sweet voice doesn’t make someone a caring, compassionate soul. What’s important is the ability to have empathy for another human being—to be able to feel their pain, to walk alongside them in their suffering.”
“Thoughts alone can’t change the world.”
“Books teach us how to care about others.”
“Books are filled with human thoughts and feelings. People suffering, people who are sad or happy, laughing with joy. By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves.
