“These are the days that must happen to you,”
― Blue Highways: A Journey into America
― Blue Highways: A Journey into America
“They are wildflowers. They would not want a name.”
― Same Sun Here
― Same Sun Here
“Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.”
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“Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what’s there, not what you got told was there.”
― Blue Highways: A Journey into America
― Blue Highways: A Journey into America
“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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