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have seen, to my regret, that one does not require an element of truth for a concept to be believed,” Zera interjected. “For the mind 84clings not to what is, but to what it desires. There is undeniable evidence throughout the scrolls. Once
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A quote for our times .
“Right now, grazing in the divots on your head (and elsewhere on your oily surface, but above all on your head) are tiny mites called Demodex folliculorum”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“in ten years I'll think this age was pretty young and held a lot of potential. What did I do with that opportunity? Can I appreciate who I am right now? Can I at least give myself a break? That's what we're really talking about here. Otherwise, everything at every moment in every year I've been alive is so serious and the path to a good life is narrow and fraught with peril. I'm going with the idea that life is full of really good stuff on a very, very wide road that has a million”
― Drow Requiem
― Drow Requiem
“My biggest fear, and all of us have seen this evolution occurring right here in our world, is that factoids and falsehoods congeal into self-affirming, wholly segregated, information bubbles. For someone trying to research whether a factoid is true these days, it’s too easy to slip into the pit of an information bubble that contains enough corroborating factoids to make one think they’ve found a solid, true fact. With the emergence of AI in print, images, and now video, I’m afraid that the factoid bubble phenomenon will spin out of control until none of us has any hope of knowing anything that’s actually true anymore. Plenty of inspiration for us post-apoc writers, though.”
― Flames
― Flames
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