

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
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“Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest

“The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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