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Thomas Pynchon
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit
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Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception
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Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin
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