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So many prior pursuits now seem needlessly convoluted, or even dangerous. It sometimes doesn’t seem possible that the postal service and landline telephones were enough to perpetuate society.
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don’t, well then, you don’t. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.”
― And the Dark Sacred Night
― And the Dark Sacred Night
“Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.”
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
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“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
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