“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Science is magic that works.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― The Place of Dead Roads
― The Place of Dead Roads
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