"Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens."

-- John Darnielle

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“For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty...”
“I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.”
“Information wants to be free.”
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime”
“Is is always time to do the right thing.”
“Just follow the day and reach for the sun!”
“Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.”
“It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.”

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