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What We Can Know
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Most people don’t even want to acknowledge that there are opinion-driven decisions or that they have to make them. Because if you follow your gut and your gut is wrong, then there’s nowhere else to cast blame. But if all you did was follow ...more
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Kazuo Ishiguro
“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

Marilynne Robinson
“it’s your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. I’m about to put on imperishability. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye. The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I’ve thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. “The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.” That’s a fact.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

David Grann
“Asked at one point what he had done after the shooting, he replied, “I went home and ate supper.”
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Maria Konnikova
“Denying luck individually is to suggest that we have much greater agency than we really have over outcomes in our lives.” Games give us a chance to confront luck in a manner that allows us to process it in life in a way we’re not always forced to do.”
Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

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