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“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”
― Philosophical Fragments
― Philosophical Fragments

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation

“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
― Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
― Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking

“I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport, Rhode Island, who asked me to design and build a doghouse for her Great Dane. The lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why anyone should be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be. And yet, when I showed her a blueprint of the doghouse I proposed to build, she said to me, “I’m sorry, but I never could read one of those things.” “Give it to your husband or your minister to pass on to God,” I said, “and, when God finds a minute, I’m sure he’ll explain this doghouse of mine in a way that even you can understand.” She fired me. I shall never forget her. She believed that God liked people in sailboats much better than He liked people in motorboats. She could not bear to look at a worm. When she saw a worm, she screamed. She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
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