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“She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.”
― Muriel Spark, Bang-Bang You're Dead and Other Stories

tags: politics, reviewing

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“We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.”
― Murray Leinster, The Wailing Asteroid

tags: humans

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“Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, An Island Called Moreau

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“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.”
― Paul Fussell

tags: vanity-in-review

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“It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.”
― Ian Cameron Esslemont, Stonewielder

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