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History is a construct, she tells her students. Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still, there are definitive moments, moments we use as references, because they break our sense of continuity, they change the
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“What is he?’ ‘What would you have him be?”
― Magician
― Magician
“I’m convinced if I keep going one day I will write something decent. On very bad days I will observe that I must have written good things in the past, which means that I’ve lost it. But normally I just assume that I don’t have it. The gulf between the thing I set out to make in my head and the sad, lumpy thing that emerges into reality is huge and distant and I just wish that I could get them closer.”
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“He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.”
― Fool's Fate
― Fool's Fate
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
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“Metaphorical flavor doesn’t influence reality,” said the expendable.”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
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