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― Solito
“It is an exhilarating and terrifying experience to walk the road of your ignorance. Learning, you learn, is not really a process of expanding your mind, but of watching it shrink against all there is to know.”
― Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
― Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
“The two are not quite the same thing: Guilt revolves around feeling bad for what you have done; shame is feeling bad about yourself as a person because of what you have done.”
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
“... for the weak and the ineffectual, who cannot rise to the dignity and nobility of tragedy, or the luxury of irony, for whom even ordinary acts of will are impossible, melodrama is a substitute. People deprived of the capacity to change their fate can only repetitively lament this fact, and since they belong to the vast majority of the world's population, melodrama should be taken seriously for its world-historical impact.”
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― Run and Hide
“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
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― The Bandit Queens
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