Sujoy

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“What Ostrom found empirically is that there exists a certain community size below which people act as collectivists, protecting the commons, as if the entire unit became rational. Such a commons cannot be too large. It is like a club. Groups behave differently at a different scale. This explains why the municipal is different from the national. It also explains how tribes operate: you are part of a specific group that is larger than the narrow you, but narrower than humanity in general. Critically, people share some things but not others within a specified group. And there is a protocol for dealing with the outside.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things