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“Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome
The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.”
― Player One: What Is to Become of Us
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
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“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”
― The Indigo Spell
― The Indigo Spell
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.”
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turning your back on,
if you love it.”
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