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“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
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“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”
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“Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.”
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“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
Words Matter
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Considering that words are being used to create "alternate truths", it is important for us all to remember the lessons to be learned from works that i ...more
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