“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals.
How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”
― A Man Without a Country
How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.”
― A Man Without a Country
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
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Political fiction book club
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A book club for everyone interested in reading novels that use fiction to comment on politics, political systems and ideologies. We read the classics ...more
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