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"What's crazy is the parallels between this book and the points tolstoy is making in war and peace. humans are designed for causal thinking and will jump to the simplest explanation without understanding or considering that, often, there are a myriad of factors leading to something (like tolstoy's point that generals in the army don't really do shit, it's a matter of 23982938 data points)" — Jan 24, 2018 07:59PM
"What's crazy is the parallels between this book and the points tolstoy is making in war and peace. humans are designed for causal thinking and will jump to the simplest explanation without understanding or considering that, often, there are a myriad of factors leading to something (like tolstoy's point that generals in the army don't really do shit, it's a matter of 23982938 data points)" — Jan 24, 2018 07:59PM
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They were white men, the first Esi had ever seen. She could not match their skin to any tree or nut or mud or clay that she had ever encountered. “These people do not come from nature,” she said.
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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