“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“he said nothing. It seemed the smartest thing to say.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
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