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“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
― Charlotte’s Web
― Charlotte’s Web
“[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.”
― Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
― Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”
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“I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.”
― A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
― A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
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