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“I swear, their idea of a fun party is challenging everyone to a duel by dawn.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

“Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“All post-industrial technologies are potential extinction events in waiting.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room