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“To actually make you believe that your problems were spiritual and mental but absolutely not boozical. Good Christ, just the alcohol-related loss of the REM sleep was enough to screw you up righteously, but somehow you never thought of that while you were active. Booze turned your thought-processes into something akin to that circus routine where all the clowns come piling out of the little car.”
― Wolves of the Calla
― Wolves of the Calla
“Designers and copywriters were at the top of the moral flexibility scale, and the accountants ranked at the bottom. It seems that when “creativity” is in our job description, we are more likely to say “Go for it” when it comes to dishonest behavior.”
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
“For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s mind while others are neglected. People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“I began to hear the hurried, eager gossip of Castle Stream. I thought of trout with bright speckled backs and pure white bellies, and my heart went up in my chest.”
― Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
― Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
“The basic idea behind self-signaling is that despite what we tend to think, we don’t have a very clear notion of who we are. We generally believe that we have a privileged view of our own preferences and character, but in reality we don’t know ourselves that well (and definitely not as well as we think we do). Instead, we observe ourselves in the same way we observe and judge the actions of other people—inferring who we are and what we like from our actions.”
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
― The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves
Heather E Cutler’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Heather E Cutler’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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