Deep Thoughts

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed‑of things—the people on the edge see them first.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

— Voltaire

““The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ― Garry Kasparov”

— The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 3) by D.D. Black

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““Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.” ― Jonathan Swift”

— The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 3) by D.D. Black

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Every generation of human being has lived with uncertainty and unpredictability; that’s how we developed the staggering human capacity for invention, discovery, improvisation and creativity. Our ability to invent and explore came from necessity, not comfort.

Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted

“the super-power of the human race—dating back a couple hundred thousand years—was making order out of a fundamentally chaotic and unpredictable world.”

— The Shadows of Pike Place (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 2) by D.D. Black

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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

— Audre Lorde

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

— Robert Hughes

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you