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“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
― Island
― Island
“He won’t be diving straight for the human flesh. But a cat has got to eat, and you are the person who feeds him. This is the cat-human compact. Death doesn’t free you from performing your contractual obligations.”
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
― Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
“Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.”
― Island
― Island
“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”
― Island
― Island
“Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
Jenni’s 2025 Year in Books
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