But hopes and legends are what drive people to action, not bottom-line calculations by economists of a later age.
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Forbes had fully invested herself in her sentences. She had made them her own, agreed to live or die by them, taken total responsibility for them. How had she done this? I didn’t know. But I do now: she’d revised them.”
― The Brain-Dead Megaphone
― The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,”
― Neverness: An Epic Science Fiction Novel of Interstellar Travel and the Secret of Immortality
― Neverness: An Epic Science Fiction Novel of Interstellar Travel and the Secret of Immortality
“Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). If we learn what a truthful sentence looks like, a little flag goes up at a false one.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
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