"We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Tangible Quotes #Favors Quotes #Embedded Quotes

“How would you take care of it?â€ I asked. He shrugged. â€œI know some ghouls. I make a couple calls, the guys come over for dinner, problem solved.â€ â€œThey can put away nine whole giants? Thereâ€™s that many ghouls in town?â€ â€œProbably not,â€ Leif admitted. â€œBut whatever they do not eat tonight, theyâ€™ll take the rest to go.â€ I stared at him in disbelief. â€œYou mean like a doggie bag?â€ The vampire nodded with a thin trace of a smile. â€œThey have a refrigerated truck, Atticus. These are practical guys.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.120, Del Rey
“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.”
“A person who is in the elements of his own is often thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who arenâ€™t may be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly lone.”
“If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.”

Source : "Freedom from Religion". The Nation, February 19, 2001.
“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative â€” the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.”
“The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.”
“The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.”
“Most of the federal government could be shut down.”

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