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“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Dune
― Dune
“If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
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“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."
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(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
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“You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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