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I’m irritable. I haven’t exercised in a few days, so I feel “fat,” which I understand to be a part of my 1980s white-woman heritage. It is stupid and useless, as “fat,” of course, is not a feeling.
“I’m rich in interpretation and poor in datasets,”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
― Babylon’s Ashes
“Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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