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“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…”
― Paris
― Paris
“We are out of our heads. We are in the world and of it. We are patterns of active engagement with fluid boundaries and changing components. We are distributed.”
― Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
― Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
“The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.”
― The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
― The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
“You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you don't really value me? I don't have other friends, I said.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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