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Irene’s power gave her no access to absolute truth; she could only know whether or not the speaker believed what he was saying. In that moment, Lev was telling the truth. And that allowed Irene to lie to herself.
“Love is another name for sex.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.”
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
“My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“Writers reduce what they write, and readers reduce what they read. The brain itself is made to reduce, replace, emblemize... Verisimilitude is not only a false idol, but also an unattainable goal. So we reduce. And it is not without reverence that we reduce. This is how we apprehend our world. This is what humans do.
Picturing stories is making reductions. Through reduction, we create meaning.
These reductions are the world as we see it - they are what we see when we read, and they are what we see when we read the world.
They are what reading looks like (if it looks like anything at all).”
― What We See When We Read
Picturing stories is making reductions. Through reduction, we create meaning.
These reductions are the world as we see it - they are what we see when we read, and they are what we see when we read the world.
They are what reading looks like (if it looks like anything at all).”
― What We See When We Read
“Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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