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“But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“Don’t quote Nietzsche on my boat,” said Elspeth.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Ernest Hemingway - Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I lay there with Jonas, listening to his stories. All cat stories start with the statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,” and I lay with my head close to Jonas and listened.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle