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Book cover for Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) by Anne Rice

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By morning, I realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.

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

tags: epistemology, puzzle, thinking, understanding, universe

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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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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”
― Gabrielle Roth

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