"Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can."

-- Fay Weldon

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“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”

Source : "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.
“Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.113, Courier Corporation
“I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.”
“Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or haveâ€”but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.”
“So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.”
“The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.”
“Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.”
“The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.”

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