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“You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up,” she asked plaintively, “and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”
― Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
― Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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