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"I started this for an upcoming book club. But I dont think I want to finish it. I might go to the book club anyway, to see if I should finish it. I get that Jemisin has said in interviews that she doesn’t do subtlety, but this just feels like bad writing. I’ve loved other stuff from her." — 9 hours, 3 min ago
"I started this for an upcoming book club. But I dont think I want to finish it. I might go to the book club anyway, to see if I should finish it. I get that Jemisin has said in interviews that she doesn’t do subtlety, but this just feels like bad writing. I’ve loved other stuff from her." — 9 hours, 3 min ago
“Then why are you so ready to bow to someone else’s prejudices? Isn’t it bad enough that human bigotry still shapes what we can do safely? These people aren’t our overlords, they haven’t conquered us—why should we twist ourselves to make
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It took me a bit to get into this book, but it was quotes like this that solidified why I enjoyed listening to it.
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“Every innovation—technological, sociological, or otherwise—begins as a crusade, organizes itself into a practical business, and then, over time, degrades into common exploitation. This is simply the life cycle of how human ingenuity manifests in the material world. What goes forgotten, though, is that those who partake in this system undergo a similar transformation: people begin as comrades and fellow citizens, then become labor resources and assets, and then, as their utility shifts or degrades, transmute into liabilities, and thus must be appropriately managed.”
― Foundryside
― Foundryside
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