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As the great Continental philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche asserted, we only begin to think and live creatively when we no longer expect the world to answer and mirror our assumptions about ourselves. Otherwise we are likely to become dull
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“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know.”
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
― Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
“My books are all essentially about ‘what ifs’. In Black Fang I asked: What if a rat could drive a bus? And what if it and its rat brethren took over and ate Parliament?”
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“It is becoming increasingly clear that, without an effective government, backed by a loyal military and some kind of national consensus in support of independence, we cannot do anything for South Vietnam. The economic and military power of the United States … must not be wasted in a futile attempt to save those who do not wish to be saved.”
(Page 399)”
― Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
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― Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
“We shouldn’t be forced to choose at all. The fury in Aida’s voice was familiar. Nostalgic. I’d once possessed that strain of fury, as had my fellow cooks, my friends, my produce guy, a virulent rage against our tainted inheritance of this stupid, smog-choked planet. But it couldn’t last. We’d been inoculated from rage by other, more immediate concerns. For example: how to pay rent, how to stay alive. Aida, rich as she was, hadn’t been forced to choose between anger and dinner. For the first time in years, I tasted, through her, that feeling.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey
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