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#1

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

tags: experience

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#2

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

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#3

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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#4

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read

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#5

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

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#6

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."

(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)”
― Anatole Broyard

tags: ancestry, books, library, personal-history, portraits

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#7

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: acceptance, hate, imagination

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#8

“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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#9

“from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen

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#10

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
― Walt Kelly

tags: humorous

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#11

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth

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#12

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#13

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

tags: literature, novels, writers, writing

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#14

“I've seen enough to know that you can be a human with a mountain of resources and you can be a human with nothing, and you can be a monster either way.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

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#15

“Law?" said Moscowitz, "I don't know anything about law. I'm an attorney." from Don't Give Your Right Name, 1941”
― Norbert Davis, Dime Detective

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#16

“My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.”
― Nalo Hopkinson

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#17

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, life, living-well

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#18

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, future, history, past, present

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#19

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: futurism, inspirational, life-lessons

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