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“Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than any other method we apes have found for learning about the world around us.”
― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

tags: empiricism, realism, science

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“She had underestimated the human capacity for self-destruction.”
― Robert Repino, Mort(e)

tags: humanity, self-destruction

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“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
― Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

tags: bible, biblical, proverbial-wisdom, proverbs, wisdom

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“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail”
― William Faulkner, Knight's Gambit

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“Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker

tags: nnedi-okorafor

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Charlaine Harris Book/Show Group — 1466 members — last activity May 26, 2025 03:13PM
This group gives Charlaine fans the opportunity to discuss her books and chat about other related events (shows, movies, etc.). This used to be a Sook ...more

Gail Carriger Fan Group — 647 members — last activity Jun 13, 2023 04:46PM
A fan group devoted to the discussion of all books and things Gail Carriger.

On the Southern Literary Trail — 2251 members — last activity 14 hours, 41 min ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more