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“I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible—states of affairs removed from them in space and time—ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the
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Perfect example why I put up with Stephenson's ridiculous narrative tangents... because he hides gems, like this quote, within them. #NealYouCrazy(Smart)
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
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“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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