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As I write, night is falling and people are going to dinner. It’s been a gray day, such as one often sees in Paris.
“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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