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Gorillas, like autistic people, are misunderstood. They are seen as ugly, as caricatures of fully formed humanity, as unfinished or trapped in an anachronistic world that has no value. Prejudices about what it means to be a person
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“In 1998, the New York Times reported that “in the [annual UCLA] survey taken at the start of the fall semester, 74.9 percent of freshmen chose being well off as an essential goal and 40.8 percent chose developing a philosophy. In 1968, the numbers were reversed, with 40.8 percent selecting financial security and 82.5 percent citing the importance of developing a philosophy.”
― A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
― A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
“David could become an expert on something very quickly and then turn round and dismiss it a couple of weeks later.”
― David Bowie: The Oral History
― David Bowie: The Oral History
“Normality is bullshit, and surrealist weirdness is a direct assault on the bullshit fortress.”
― Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
― Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
“But there’s stress and stress, the attenuating wear and tear of overwork versus the exhausting psychic fray of living the wrong life.”
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
― Everybody: A Book about Freedom
“It cheers me to imagine that the air that once powered me could power others, to believe that the breath that enables me to engrave these words could one day flow through someone else’s body. I do not delude myself into thinking that this would be a way for me to live again, because I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily. The pattern that is me, the patterns that are the entire world in which I live, would be gone.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
Sean’s 2025 Year in Books
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