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“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― The Globe
― The Globe
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh
“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”
― Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
― Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
― Winnie-the-Pooh
― Winnie-the-Pooh
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Michelle’s 2025 Year in Books
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