But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
“Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
“We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about the things you always thought about, but that you didn't anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're a part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
“We spend all our lives standing up on a ledge like this, but we pretend not to notice.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
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