“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”
― The Red Pyramid
― The Red Pyramid
“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about this."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”
― Feast of Fools
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
"Not about this."
"Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”
― Feast of Fools
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”
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“Powers”
― The Wealth of Nations
― The Wealth of Nations
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