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    Donna Tartt
    “Though not untidy, exactly, it verged on being so. Books were stacked on every available surface; the tables were cluttered papers, ashtrays, bottles of whiskey, boxes of chocolates; umbrellas and galoshes made passage difficult in the narrow hall… Camilla’s night table was littered with empty teacups, leaky pens, dead marigolds in a water glass, and at the foot of her bed was a half-played game of solitaire… everywhere I looked was some fresh oddity: an old stereopticon, arrowheads in a dusty glass case, a staghorn fern, a bird’s skeleton…”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: dark-academia, donna-tartt, the-secret-history
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman
    tags: context, ideas, unbiased-apathy
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    Robert Penn Warren
    “Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”
    ― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
    tags: context, memory
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    Tom Carson
    “A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
    ― Tom Carson
    tags: context, pretext, proof-texting, text
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    Harjeet Khanduja
    “Context makes anything legal or illegal”
    ― Harjeet Khanduja, Nothing About Business
    tags: context
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    Umberto Eco
    “There always exists a context that is capable of reproposing as new a codified catachresis or dead metaphor.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
    tags: catachresis, context, dead-metaphor, repurposing
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    Donna J. Haraway
    “From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.”
    ― Donna Haraway
    tags: feminism, objectivity, partial-perspective, rhetoric, science-studies, situated-knowledge, social-constructionism, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: discovery, eccentric, life
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    André Gide
    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chaos, discovery
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    Nelson Mandela
    “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: personal-growth, self-discovery
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    Angela Y. Davis
    “[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”
    ― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
    tags: capitalism, prisons, racism, society, sociology
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    Toni Morrison
    “Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: african-american, art, black, literature, sociology
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    “For me context is the key—from that comes the understanding of everything.”
    ― Kenneth Noland
    tags: criticalthinking
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    William James
    “To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides.”
    ― William James
    tags: criticalthinking
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    “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
    ― Eliel Saarinen
    tags: criticalthinking
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    Sarah Parcak
    “In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artefacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.”
    ― Sarah Parcak
    tags: context
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    Anthony Bourdain
    “Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”
    ― Anthony Bourdain
    tags: understanding-context
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    “Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.”
    ― Annette Bening
    tags: criticalthinking
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  • #24
    “Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.”
    ― Marilyn Ferguson
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    Janet Jackson
    “No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.”
    ― Janet Jackson
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: truth, understanding
    1736 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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  • #30
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
    2730 likes



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