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“The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.”
― Selected Prose 1909–1965
― Selected Prose 1909–1965
“Utopia retains throughout its long history the basic form of the narrative of a journey... First comes the picture of a happy people in a beautiful and well-ordered setting; then comes the lecture on how it all came about, how it works, and, by implication, how it might be made to work in the traveller's own society.”
― Utopianism
― Utopianism
“Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.”
― Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
― Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
“Private, visual reading and private composition thus encouraged individual critical thinking and contributed ultimately to the development of skepticism and intellectual heresy.”
― Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
― Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
“Utopia confronts reality not with a measured assessment of the possibilities of change but with the demand for change. 'This is the way the world should be.' It refuses to accept current definitions of the possible because it knows these to be part of the reality that it seeks to change... Wilde was right: 'A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.”
― Utopianism
― Utopianism
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