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“First man: How are your kids?
Second man: Compared to what?”
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Second man: Compared to what?”
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“In the final analysis, nothing is ever 'none of my business'.”
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“It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses that they have bought for money.”
― Elizabeth Costello
― Elizabeth Costello
“the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth”
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the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth”
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“According to Quine, we must (alas, with the greatest reluctance!) resign ourselves (ah, that it should have come to this!) to accepting (unbidden and unwelcome!) mathematical entities, because (most regrettably and unfortunately!) mention of them seems (would that it were not so!) to be an unavoidable requirement (how cruel a necessity!) in formulating scientific theories.”
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Sharif’s 2024 Year in Books
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