
“José Arcadio had forgotten about it, because life at sea had saturated his memory with too many things to remember.”
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“Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.”
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“The basic reality,” Sandman told the New York Times, “is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.”
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“And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in 5 seconds all too soon needed 10, then 30, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness. There is no way around it: my memory is growing ever more distant from the spot where Naoko used to stand - where my old self used to stand. And nothing but scenery, that view of the meadow in October, returns again and again to me like a symbolic scene in a film. Each time it appears, it delivers a kick to some part of my mind.”
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“The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover.”
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