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Voices From the Street

by Philip K. Dick

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The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

by Mary Lou Heiss

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“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: intelligence, stupidity

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“Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: americans

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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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