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Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything-asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisionto live in bliss without knowing it?

All the dots finally connect on 349

Realizing Walt's Hypothetical collection development budget is very close to how I manage my budget.(more librarians should be reading this)

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

They turned chaos into order, even if it was at the cost of what is commonly known as sanity

Coincidence... is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet

Women...are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving (not from untreatable diseases)

maternal health gets minimal attention because those who die...start with three strikes against them: they are female...poor...rural.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebian stigmas.

Every man must educate himself, just as I've done, for instance... And as for the age, why should I depend on it? Let it rather depend on me

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune.

What is the reading of a text, except the recording of certain thematic occurances...

Readers are my vampires.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

...the executives who grant the workforce some amount of authority never lose any of their own authority.

 I knew there were things wrong in the world, they were referred to... But the wrong things were wrong somewhere else. 

A fluid room would cost millions, but a person's life and freedom cost less than 5% of that.

...government always tended to be scared of the truly innovative, being by it's nature very conservative

"It is a man child and will get what it wants anyway. Had it been a woman child there is nothing in the world I would not have done for it.

...the Neuro...a stored database of every search, every request, and every nuance an individual made...

Taking away a person's control of her own life...is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose...

His opinion was as plain as morality...A bank director who blows millions...should not keep his job.

Joining the party was experienced as a momentous event, equivalent in it's intensity, as to taking a decision for Christ

She shrugged. She said negligently:"He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country."

He continues to watch them and write about them...to touch them without touching...so they touch him without really touching him.

the characters in this book are all just the Author himself

It is as though he were picking their pockets while the audience is immersed in the byways of his writing...

the books were even older they made me think of the old British army abandoned and left behind still standing in their dusty formations.

This was a girl--a woman--who could make or unmake the world however she wanted. It was the most compelling thing I'd ever seen.