Emily

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey

1 highlight

Always this: our accomplishments subsiding to time and acclimation.

The Holy or the Broken

by Alan Light

2 highlights
The Midnight Shift

by Cheon Seon-ran

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Emily’s Quotes

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

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“Everything was dragging me toward the arts; even the study of modern philosophy suggested that philosophy was nonsense.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

tags: arts, philosophy

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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: stoppard

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“How can any of us ever be sure that we know what other people mean when they use words?”
― Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English

tags: language, meaning, understanding

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“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

tags: happiness, memory, pain

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