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“In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.”
― Martin Heidegger

“You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“(A substantial fraction of the atoms in the body of a typical physicist were once in the form of pizza.)”
― Sean Carroll, The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson and the Discovery of a New World

“... I regard the tale of Arwen and Aragorn as the most important of the Appendices [in Lord of The Rings]; it is part of the essential story, and is only placed so, because it could not be worked into the main narrative without destroying its structure ...

[From letter 181]”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien