Jo Toon

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philosophy‎ (262)
religion‎ (190)
favorites‎ (183)
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biography‎ (165)

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science-fiction‎ (96)
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Jo’s Quotes

“The dream of a novel was more resilient than other kinds of dreaming. It could be interrupted in mid-sentence and snapped back into later.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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“No, if you haven’t lived through 1998, you don’t know what sanctimony is.”
― Philip Roth, The Human Stain

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“Inside? Outside? What is the difference and how can you tell? When a sound enters your body through your ears and merges with your mind, what happens to it? Is it still a sound then, or has it become something else? When you eat a wing or an egg or a drumstick, at what point is it no longer a chicken? When you read these words on a page, what happens to them, when they become you?”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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“He was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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