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“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
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“Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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“Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.”
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
― Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
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Sherlock’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sherlock’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
469 books
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246 friends
543 books
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505 friends
522 books
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43 friends
329 books
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163 friends
280 books
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32 friends
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89 friends
46 books
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74 friends
131 books
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231 friends
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Art, Classics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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