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“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.”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
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I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― The Middle Years
― The Middle Years
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