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    Jess C. Scott
    “That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: body-image, cyberpunk, materialism, meaning, plastic-surgery, reality, reflection, society, technology
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
    ― Jess C Scott, New Order
    tags: bisexual, bisexuality, bisexuals, body, books, boy, cool, culture, desire, emotion, erotic, erotica, friendship, funny, gay, gay-men, gay-rights, glbt, guy, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, sexuality, society, society-s-increasing-stupidity, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: technology, wisdom
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
    tags: technology
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