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“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Deep down, our minds yearn to make sense of our world. We do this by naming things, creating stories, and using storytelling to explain how everything fits together – from societal norms to who we are and how we relate to our environment. This is what Storr calls the theory of control. The stories we craft about ourselves and the world based on our deeply held beliefs are often flawed.”
― Philosophy for Business Leaders: Asking Questions, Navigating Uncertainty, and the Quest for Meaning
― Philosophy for Business Leaders: Asking Questions, Navigating Uncertainty, and the Quest for Meaning
“Another time Billy heard Rosewater say to a psychiatrist, “I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren’t going to want to go on living.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true."
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“The Internet is a bright house standing above a dark cellar with a dirt floor. Falsehoods sprout like mushrooms in that cellar.”
― Sleeping Beauties
― Sleeping Beauties
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