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#1

“The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

tags: american-dream, capitalism, consumerism, dfw, solipsism

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#2

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

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#3

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

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#4

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#5

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

tags: happiness, joy, religion

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#6

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

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#7

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#8

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

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#9

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

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#10

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#11

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#12

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

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#13

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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#14

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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#15

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#16

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

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#17

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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#18

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

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#19

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

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#20

“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. They are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women

tags: politics

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#21

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#22

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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#23

“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: lies, lying, truth, willful-ignorance

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#24

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry

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#25

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: stubbornness, willful-ignorance

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#26

“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

tags: ignorance, man, men, resonsibility, willful-ignorance

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#27

“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: liber-librae, thelema, willful-ignorance

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#28

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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