Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.
Ken Liu
“If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself, your conclusions will not be predictable.” – Kevin Kelly
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
인문학 열풍이라는 말이 있지만, 분명한 사실은 이렇다. 유명한 저자 책은 잘 나가지만, 인문학다운 책 대부분이 초판 팔기도 힘들다는 것. 인문학 열풍이라고 해도 기초학문을 다루는 학과는 사라지고 있다. 그래도 인문학을 읽어야 하는 이유는 공부하는 이유와 비슷하다. 우리는 자유로워지기 위해서 공부한다. 주변에 우리를 속박하는 것들이 많다. 벗어나기 위해서는 뭐가 우리를 옥죄고 속박하는지 알아야 한다. 인문, 역사, 철학 등의 책을 읽으면 우리를 가장 불편하게 하고, 우리의 자유를 무엇이 속박하는지 알 수 있다. 인문학 책을 읽어야 하는 이유는 우리가 자유로워지기 위해서다.
I think that every writer should have a question they can ask that there is no end to the pursuit of. Every writer should have questions big enough and pressing enough and multi-faceted enough and unanswerable enough that they occupy their entire life, however long or short it is
Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance,... See more
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Must is who we are, what we believe, and what we do when we are alone with our truest, most authentic self. It’s our instincts, our cravings and longings, the things and places and ideas we burn for, the intuition that swells up from somewhere deep inside of us. Must is what happens when we stop conforming to other people’s ideals and start... See more