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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
“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
“When you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

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

John  Green
“I know the world will survive us—and in some ways it will be more alive. More birdsong. More creatures roaming around. More plants cracking through our pavement, rewilding the planet we terraformed. I imagine coyotes sleeping in the ruins of the homes we built. I imagine our plastic still washing up on beaches hundreds of years after the last of us is gone. I imagine moths, having no artificial lights toward which to fly, turning back to the moon.”
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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