Convince me to read your favorite book by your favourite “QUOTE” from the book
I'll go first:
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
> What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared
> was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no
> one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
> information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we
> would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth
> would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in
> a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
> Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some
> equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal
> bumblepuppy. As Huxley re
> marked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and
> rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take
> into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984,
> Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New
> World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell
> feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love
> will ruin us.
> This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
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‘Alexander Rostov was neither scientist nor sage; but at the age of sixty-four he was wise enough to know that life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually. Such that the events of an average day are as likely to transform who we are as a pinch of pepper is to transform a stew.’
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
kikiburra on
“The muffin was vegan and tasted of despair.”
– Conviction, by Denise Mina
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“Don’t you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?
Darling, he’d said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself”
The invisible life of addie larue by ve Schwab
theadoptedman on
“Ideas cannot exist alone in the vacuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living: liver ideas, kidney ideas, interstitial ideas, etc. If it were only for the sake of an idea Copernicus would not have smashed the existent macrocosm and Columbus would have foundered in the Sargasso Sea. The aesthetics of the idea breeds flowerpots and flowerpots you put on the window sill. But if there be no rain or sun of what use putting flowerpots outside the window?”
Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer
Also:
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
The same
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer, William Gibson
Wandering-Pondering on
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
AND
Your offer,” he said, “is far too idiotic to be declined
– The Man who was Thursday, GK Chesterton
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Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
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> What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared
> was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no
> one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
> information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we
> would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth
> would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in
> a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
> Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some
> equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal
> bumblepuppy. As Huxley re
> marked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and
> rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take
> into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984,
> Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New
> World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell
> feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love
> will ruin us.
> This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
‘Alexander Rostov was neither scientist nor sage; but at the age of sixty-four he was wise enough to know that life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually. Such that the events of an average day are as likely to transform who we are as a pinch of pepper is to transform a stew.’
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
“The muffin was vegan and tasted of despair.”
– Conviction, by Denise Mina
“Don’t you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?
Darling, he’d said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself”
The invisible life of addie larue by ve Schwab
“Ideas cannot exist alone in the vacuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living: liver ideas, kidney ideas, interstitial ideas, etc. If it were only for the sake of an idea Copernicus would not have smashed the existent macrocosm and Columbus would have foundered in the Sargasso Sea. The aesthetics of the idea breeds flowerpots and flowerpots you put on the window sill. But if there be no rain or sun of what use putting flowerpots outside the window?”
Henry Miller, The Tropic of Cancer
Also:
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
The same
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer, William Gibson
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
AND
Your offer,” he said, “is far too idiotic to be declined
– The Man who was Thursday, GK Chesterton
Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?