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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its…
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can…
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used…
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding…
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We invent what we love and what we fear.
— John Irving
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There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
— Unknown Author
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Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that…
— Helen Zille
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It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
— Frank Kermode
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Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real…
— Saul Bellow
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It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent…
— James M. Kouzes
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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
— Jeff Bezos
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