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“Much like our capacity for causal inference, the human capacity for lying is one of the pillars that has shaped our success.”
― Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

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“A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“On the fourth day, a reporter, or maybe a passerby, spits on my face outside the courthouse. My lawyer finds a canteen napkin with which I wipe my face, but there is no time to find a bathroom and wash. I sit with that stranger’s hatred on my face all day.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Burning

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