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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“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
“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
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