"In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice."

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Source : 1938 The Triple Thinkers, introduction.

Edmund Wilson

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”
“WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”
“Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.”
“Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.”
“Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.”
“I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.
“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.”

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