“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Autumn Leaves
― Autumn Leaves
“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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