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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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Kumail’s 2024 Year in Books
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