April 2013
13 posts
“Never memorize something you can look up.”
– Albert Einstein (via scienceapplied)
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Rawls: For consider: each man in realising his own interests is certainly free to balance his own losses against his own gains ... Why should not a society act on precisely the same principle applied to the group and therefore regard that which is rational for one man as right for an association of men?
Nozick: To use a person in this way does not sufficiently respect and take account of the fact that he is a separate person, that his is the only life he has.
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“Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of...”
– Iain M Banks, Consider Phlebas
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“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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“What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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“Have you ever felt as if you could actually feel time flowing away from you? As...”
– Robin Hobb, Fool’s Errand
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
– Terry Pratchett (via scienceapplied)
“The bomb lives only as it is falling.”
– Iain M. Banks
When he goes, he’ll leave a crater.
(via wordsbydan)
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“I heard the last coin fall into the bowels of the public phone, the sound of...”
– Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
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“Do you plan to make revolution with clichés?”
– Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
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“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? That you end up being...”
– Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
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“The profession of poetry was as diverse as humanity itself, and humanity, as we...”
– Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
March 2013
34 posts
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“There came the steady sound of the giant’s strides as he waded on. Somehow he...”
– Michael Moorcock, The Queen of the Swords (via thephoenixsaid)
“I am anything you please, Prince Corum. What does “true” mean in this context? I...”
– Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords (via thephoenixsaid)
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“A while later, I wandered on the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there...”
– Robin Hobb, Fool’s Errand
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“What, for example, shall we say of love of money? There is nothing originally...”
– John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
“It was a time of gods, manifesting themselves upon our world in all her aspects;...”
– Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords (via thephoenixsaid)
“[For you know, my dear friend, the gates of Redwall Abbey in Mossflower Country...”
– Brian Jacques, from High Rhulain (via the-final-sentence)
“AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH, SMALL HUMAN?”
– Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (via the-alchemist-guild)
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“When he awoke the next morning, his arms ached as if he had been grappling with...”
– Stephen Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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“Brusquely, he reached out and accepted the staff. It felt pure in his hands, as...”
– Stephen Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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“‘That’s the thing about witchcraft,’ Granny said, It...”
– Terry Pratchett
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“Humans are so enthusiastic!”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“She knew that there was such a thing as heroic odds. Songs and ballads and...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“He said that in times to come people would look back on this day, whatever the...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“So I had to learn. All my life. The hard way. And the hard way’s pretty...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“Plays and books … you’ve got to keep an eye on the buggers....”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“It’s so beautiful, isn’t it? I love the way humans think. They think...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat...”
– Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times - Discworld Series (via wereallaccidentswaitingtohappen)
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“Humans are always slightly lost. It’s a basic characteristic. It explains...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“I dance around the edges of genre and what is conventionally termed “literary”...”
– Talking to the Free Word about the Kitschies, and Angelmaker. (via harkaway)
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“Instead of asking, ‘Why is there war?’ we might ask, ‘Why is...”
– Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature
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“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“Susan says don’t get afraid, get angry,” said Twyla.”
– Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (via the-alchemist-guild)
“And the new day was a great big fish.”
– Terry Pratchett, from Monstrous Regiment (via the-final-sentence)
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“Many authorities have tried to describe a hangover. Dancing elephants and so on...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“Ponder Stibbons, chosen by a cruel fate to be the only one listening, loomed...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“Feudal system! Pay attention. Feudal system. King on top, then barons and...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“When does it start? There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via thephoenixsaid)
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“Magrat says a broomstick is one of them sexual metaphor things,’ said...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
February 2013
20 posts
“But there was something about Carrot’s presence. The fighting gradually stopped....”
– Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (via the-alchemist-guild)
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“Dwarves are generally scared of heights, since they don’t often have the...”
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
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“Marain, the Culture’s quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture...”
– Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games 