You’re saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole? Not intentionally. Maybe it’s a reflection of what you were feeling at the moment you opened the door.
What if we actually inhabit the multiverse, but our brains have evolved in such a way as to equip us with a firewall that limits what we perceive to a single universe? One worldline. The one we choose...
That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.
It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown.
Because I see myself, first and foremost, as a man pursuing answers to fundamental questions. Now, if the people around me—he gestures at his students who have begun to crowd in—are sharp enough to ab...
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ Albert Einstein said that. We should all savor
The most dangerous adversary you’ll ever face is an opponent who’s skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.
Is this what you want? To drop yourself into a still-life painting of a memory because life has broken your heart?
Bottoms with snowflakes on them. I know, it’s awful. HW: Misconceptions about people who graduated from UNC? BC: That if by
They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art, and I believe that to be true.
He described a diabolical raspberry-chocolate soufflé, but it was late,
They were just two people sharing a table, trying to limp through the awkwardness.
This is best illustrated by looking up into the night sky at stars whose brilliance took fifty light-years to reach our eyes. Or five hundred. Or five billion. We’re not just looking into space, we’re...
We leave this life the same way we enter it-totally alone, bereft.
If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That’s how decent people justify bad behavior.
The way it watched him was unnerving—a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn’t know how deep it went.
If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.
If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. GIST)
A monitor, processor, and keyboard stood separately on the floor — an old Tandy 1000 with the letters and numbers worn completely off the keys.
If you want to understand the world, you have to start by understanding—truly understanding—how we experience it.
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