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"These books aren't for me. I really want them to be, since so many people love them, but I'm partway through the third book and I'm just not feeling it. There are so many characters, and they all seem to have 2-3 different titles and names, and also, fighting and intrigue just don't hold my interest. I can see why people think these books are good; I can tell they're good; they're just not for me. for me." — Apr 29, 2016 10:52AM
"These books aren't for me. I really want them to be, since so many people love them, but I'm partway through the third book and I'm just not feeling it. There are so many characters, and they all seem to have 2-3 different titles and names, and also, fighting and intrigue just don't hold my interest. I can see why people think these books are good; I can tell they're good; they're just not for me. for me." — Apr 29, 2016 10:52AM
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""Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which winnows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”" — May 05, 2014 06:45PM
""Intellect, especially the sort of intellect a technocratic society favors, is, like all human abilities, far from uniformly distributed. Where there is a social competition which selects such serviceable intellect for reward, we quickly arrive at a meritocracy which winnows out the disadvantaged, the rebellious, the slow starters, the possessors of eccentric or unmarketable talents.”" — May 05, 2014 06:45PM
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"‘The oaks and wild-onions yielded to cornfields. The blight took the chestnut-groves that the ax spared. Only men graying at the temples remember the generous spreading trees, and the prickly burr with the sweet little nuts in the velvety pocket. But still, in half the counties from Massachusetts to Carolina, a Chestnut Hill stands as a monument to that brave upland tree.’" — Jan 12, 2019 07:19AM
"‘The oaks and wild-onions yielded to cornfields. The blight took the chestnut-groves that the ax spared. Only men graying at the temples remember the generous spreading trees, and the prickly burr with the sweet little nuts in the velvety pocket. But still, in half the counties from Massachusetts to Carolina, a Chestnut Hill stands as a monument to that brave upland tree.’" — Jan 12, 2019 07:19AM
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
― Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society
― Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society
“His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“Deprived of bread or the equal benefits of the commonwealth, the person shrivels. Obviously. And that is a clear line to fight on. But when the transcendent energies waste away, then too the person shrivels--though far less obviously. Their loss is suffered in privacy and bewildered silence; it is easily submerged in affluence, entertaining diversions, and adjustive therapy. Well fed and fashionably dressed, surrounded by every manner of mechanical convenience and with our credit rating in good order, we may even be ashamed to feel we have any problem at all.”
― Where the Wasteland Ends
― Where the Wasteland Ends
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
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