The death of objectivity “relieves me of the obligation to be right.” It “demands only that I be interesting.” —STANLEY FISH
“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
“To be alive and try to be a decent person, and not turn into anything big or grand, that's the hardest thing of all. You think being president is hard? Ha. Don't you see that every president becomes a millionaire after he leaves office? If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light?" [...] "People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― North Woods
― North Woods
“Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“They don't hate you, my child. They hate what you were meant to become.”
― Children of Blood and Bone
― Children of Blood and Bone
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