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Reading this book is like reading about the Titanic or some other natural disaster. You know it's coming, you know it's going to be bad, and you even have a pretty good idea of what it's going to be about, but when it comes, it's so much worse than y
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“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
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“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
― Life As We Knew It
― Life As We Knew It
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
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“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
There's life in a nutshell.”
― Mud, Sweat and Tears
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