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In 1967, long before the dream of organoids even existed, Joshua Lederberg could see the trouble that lay ahead. “The biologist, then, is not really very helpful to the law,” Lederberg said. “The question of when life begins is answered
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“A part of me wanted to remonstrate with her, to list out all her infractions in a final accounting, but the last days are for relief, not for truth.”
― Severance
― Severance
“I told her she shouldn’t marry someone who scares her, that no one should, but the words left my lips stillborn. I believed them, but I didn’t understand them well enough to make them live.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Girls who had been mean to me in high school would see me in this skirt and think, "Is that Scaachi?" and I'd say, "YOU BET IT IS, YOU DUMB BITCH" and then punch all their boyfriends in the teeth. (I have not thought this fantasy through; just let me have this.)”
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“just being perceived, all the time being perceived, was itself exhausting.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had, but actually, you never know, just by remembering, how many facts you were allowed to have faced. Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts. The eerie feeling this thought gave me made me shiver in the hot wind.”
― A Thousand Acres
― A Thousand Acres
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