What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Scarlett Thomas
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book.... An intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.
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Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free.... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators.... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
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If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, nuns haven't got anything else better to do, and none of them are ever going to be priests or become the Pope, because women aren't good enough for that), then something was very wrong. How could he have missed the bit about everyone being equal in the eyes of God?
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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
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Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
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Routine kills creative thought.
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Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
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In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
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Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.
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