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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)

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“In the end, yes, it is a famous bookstore and, yes, it is of no small literary importance. But more than anything, Shakespeare and Company is a refuge, like the church across the river. A place where the owner allows everyone to take what they need and give what they can.”
― Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

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“In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables at the cafés. Poets and writers, models and designers, painters and sculptors, actors and directors, lovers and escapists, they flock to the City of Lights. That night at Polly's, the table spilled over with the rapture of pilgrims who have found their temple. That night, among new friends and safe at Shakespeare and Company, I felt it too. Hope is a most beautiful drug.”
― Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

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“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
― Isak Dinesen

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“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: addiction, alcohol, appease, appeasement, bliss, compliments, deceit, delusion, denial, destruction, drugs, drunkenness, duped, falsehood, fantasy, flattery, getting-high, gossip, habit, happiness, ignorance, illusion, imagination, intoxication, joy, libel, lies, media, news, propaganda, rumors, self-deprecation, self-destruction, slander, truth

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“I had written the sentence, 'You mustn't think that the evolution that gave rise to us was the only evolutionary possibility on this planet. . . . that cultural developments could be shaped through the mediation of another animal species. If the biological conditions were favorable, some civilization not inferior to our own could arise in the depths of the sea. . . . Would it do the same stupid things mankind has done? Would it invite the same historical calamities? What would we say if some animal other than man declared that its education and its numbers gave it the sole right to occupy the entire world and hold sway over all creation?”
― Karel Capek

tags: evolution, human-arrogance, human-species, human-stupidity

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