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"Not digging this so far. This would probably make a fascinating 15 page paper, but unless there are some serious fireworks later on I have no idea why these insights need 640 pages to articulate." — Sep 19, 2012 06:25AM
"Not digging this so far. This would probably make a fascinating 15 page paper, but unless there are some serious fireworks later on I have no idea why these insights need 640 pages to articulate." — Sep 19, 2012 06:25AM
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
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“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”
― Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters
― Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
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“Checking a box on a form for race—" Caucasian, "" Hispanic, "" African-American, "" Native American, "or" Asian-American "—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing," American "is not a race, so labels such as" Asian-American "and" African-American "are still exhibits of our confusion of culture and race. For another thing, how far back does one go in history? Native Americans are really Asians, if you go back more than twenty or thirty thousand years to before they crossed the Bering land bridge between Asia and America. And Asians, several hundred thousand years ago probably came out of Africa, so we should really replace" Native American "with" African-Asian-Native American. "Finally, if the Out of Africa (single racial origin) theory holds true, then all modern humans are from Africa. (Cavalli-Sforza now thinks this may have been as recently as seventy thousand years ago.) Even if that theory gives way to the Candelabra (multiple racial origins) theory, ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to" African-American.”
― Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
― Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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