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"These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel."
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"With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken-formerly it was only the prominent-and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait."
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"Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it."
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"Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls."
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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"He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry."
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"And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day."
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"To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting. All this disturbs me so much that I no longer like to be spoken to about it."
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"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
Family
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Emotional
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
Psychology
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
Future
"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along."
Life
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
History
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
People
"If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis."
Crisis
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
People
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
Ethics
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