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the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.
“We do what we do because of a deep-seated thrill that follows a familiar path from awakened inkling to assiduous pursuit to compulsive repetition, repetition, repetition, to final fruition, an instant of overtaking that engulfs all conscious thought and spiritual capacity, the mental equivalent of physical climax.”
― Hannah's War
― Hannah's War
“We waste so much time on elaborations. What did that poet chap say - spending ou lives making more and more money because we're for ever discovering we need too much. It's quite true. New things are invented, so of course we think we need them.”
― Crossed Skis
― Crossed Skis
“As the boy grew, he applied himself to the understanding of science and life, but always the first more readily than the second, for science was the logical aim of his own passionate curiosity, and life was the mystic parabola that eluded his grasp every time he became certain he had solved the equation of its inevitable arc.”
― Hannah's War
― Hannah's War
“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“My revered Papa insists on listening to the news thrice daily almost as though it were a religious obligation. We live in an atmosphere conditioned by Korea, United Nations and the Iron Curtain. Is it really true that I shan't have to hear about them? I don't mean to be flippant, but I don't see that it really helps the world if I am depressed three times a day.”
― Crossed Skis
― Crossed Skis
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