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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
At night she and her daughter lit the house with candles and kerosene lamps; they warmed themselves and cooked with wood and coal, pumped kitchen water into a dry sink through a pipeline from a well and lived pretty much as though progress
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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“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'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Graceling
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Graceling
“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
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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