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When I look back at that moment, I am reminded of the etymology of the word ‘uncanny’, from the old Scots ‘can’, or ‘ken’ – to know. The beauty of the word is in its ambiguity: to be faced with the simultaneity of both knowing and not
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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
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“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
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