“Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“All that makes a writer is the ability to write strongly and directly from some unaccountable and almost invincible personal prejudice like Stevensons in favor of all being happy as kings no matter if consumptive, or Hardy against God for the blunder of sex, or Sinclair Lewis’ against small American towns, or Shakespeare’s mixed, at once against and in favor of life itself. I take it that everybody has the prejudice and spends some time feeling for it to speak and write from. But most people end as they begin by acting out the prejudices of other people.”
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“Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.”
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
― Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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