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“When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“There’s no point in believing in things that exist.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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205 friends
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15 books
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602 books
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135 books
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4,671 books
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327 books
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411 friends
673 books
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121 friends
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