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Lawrence Osborne
“There are men like the walking books in 'Fahrenheit 451' who are content to pass their lives slowly filling up with knowledge which can never be used, and it is the very filling up that gives them a sense of life's pointless sweetness.”
Lawrence Osborne, The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World

Stephen W. Hawking
“The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.”
Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Roxane Gay
“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”
Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Mary Beard
“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Haruki Murakami
“Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. … The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 #1-2

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