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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Heroides
― Heroides
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Deborah’s 2025 Year in Books
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