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“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
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“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
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“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Ivo’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ivo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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165 books
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1,610 books
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262 friends
2,481 books
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365 books
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207 books
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4 books
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376 friends
1,020 books
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18 friends
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