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"After years of this poor battered volume bouncing around in backpacks, being read in such intermittent fits and starts that I can barely remember if there is any general arc to its argument, I am entering a semester that promises numerous, regular bus rides every week. I might just finally knock it out.
I can't honestly say this book is thrilling or that I'm ever anxious to get back to it. But it sticks with me." — Jan 20, 2015 05:07PM
"After years of this poor battered volume bouncing around in backpacks, being read in such intermittent fits and starts that I can barely remember if there is any general arc to its argument, I am entering a semester that promises numerous, regular bus rides every week. I might just finally knock it out.
I can't honestly say this book is thrilling or that I'm ever anxious to get back to it. But it sticks with me." — Jan 20, 2015 05:07PM
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Well, I've read the preface, and it's clear the author is a bit of a prat. I've seen a few reviews around that warned of this. I'm reading it on a Kindle, which is a bit of an experiment--this is a hand-me-down first edition Kindle with a bum scroll
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
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“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can imagine how this can exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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