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“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”
― Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
― Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
Joe’s 2025 Year in Books
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