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“Reputation never has very much to do with reality,” she said. “I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you’d walk out of the room if you heard their names. No one on the screen is who they are when you breathe their air.”
James S. A. Corey • Caliban's War (The Expanse Book 2)
In short, the universe – the world, human life – is a preposterous fluke.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
It is the possibility of our minds touching that makes writing a worthwhile endeavor at all.
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Goodness is an acquired taste.
Russell D. Roberts • Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
“Look,” said Tyrena. “In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
That was true.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
“Deride and Conquer,” far and away the best essay ever published about network advertising,
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.”