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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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"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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"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves."
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"In modern time slowness is new sickness."
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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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"Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work."
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"It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness."
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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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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
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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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"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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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
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"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
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"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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