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Matthew Woodring Stover
“Everybody spends their whole lives pretending that shit isn’t random. We trace connections between events, and we invest those connections with meaning. That’s why we all make stories out of our lives. That’s what stories are: ways of pretending that things happen for a reason.”
Matthew Woodring Stover, Blade of Tyshalle

Oliver Sacks
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a “narrative,” and that this narrative is us, our identities.

If we wish to know about a man, we ask “what is his story — his real, inmost story?” — for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us — through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.”
Oliver Sacks

James S.A. Corey
“In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.”
James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

James S.A. Corey
“Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.”
James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

Samuel R. Delany
“No way to say warm in French. There was only hot and tepid. If there’s no word for it, how do you think about it?”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

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