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""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
""Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think."" — Jun 19, 2016 08:40AM
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""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
""I needed to make sure she understood the way I understood. my mother said it was lie a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end."" — May 13, 2016 09:39PM
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“Speaking with spiders and other things you call unusual... there's no special trick to it. When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.”
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“-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!”
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
― Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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