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I really enjoyed this book. The author is very up front about the lack of original sources and any personal accounts, but has based her conjectures on the available evidence and tries to dissect the biases present in that evidence. She also gives the
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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