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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.
“But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools;”
― His Master's Voice
― His Master's Voice
“The only men who find pleasure in a war are the ones who get to decide that we have one.”
― Nick
― Nick
“For a time she had no accurate sense of her whereabouts or of the events of the day before, or the day before that; then, like a suspended pendulum, memory began to beat out its story, releasing with each swing a burdened quota of time until her life was given back to her.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Her hair, full of a heavenly glamour, was gay against the winter color of the room.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“It turns out, however, that freedom of expression sometimes presents a greater threat to an idea, because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors, and the voice of truth becomes drowned out in an ungodly din? When that voice, though freely resounding, cannot be heard, because the technologies of information have led to a situation in which one can receive best the message of him who shouts the loudest, even when the most falsely?”
― His Master's Voice
― His Master's Voice
Garrett’s 2025 Year in Books
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