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"I can't read this book anymore. Tolstoy is an great writer with strong characters, descriptions, and insight into the human conscious, but the story itself bores me. It's long and antiquated." — Sep 04, 2012 03:23PM
"I can't read this book anymore. Tolstoy is an great writer with strong characters, descriptions, and insight into the human conscious, but the story itself bores me. It's long and antiquated." — Sep 04, 2012 03:23PM
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
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“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
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“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers….This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just 'What if' - it's 'My God; what if' - in frenzy and hysteria. The Martians are always coming.”
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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
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