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Lauren’s Notes & Highlights

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

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“Fear men, Luzia,” he said. “Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service.

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Lauren’s Quotes

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

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“Once you’ve been a shotgun person for a while, it’s hard to imagine anything else, and you start using stupid terms like ‘human nature’ to describe it. If being a selfish, untrusting asshole is human nature, then how do we form friendships? Where do families come from?”
― Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

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“In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?”
― Susan Barker, The Incarnations

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“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories

tags: writing

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“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

tags: epistemology, puzzle, thinking, understanding, universe

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