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• In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
• Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,
• I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
• Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
• Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even…
• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.…
• When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
• What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows…
• Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
• For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional…

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