“The main shift, and it comes about gradually, is realizing that you really will die. It’s not a joke. You really have to die.” — Gary Snyder, Driving The Beat Road, The Washington Post (2017-06-30)
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“Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“As you get older, nostalgia becomes a problem. You start to think, ‘Oh, things were better back in my day. You should’ve been here in North Beach then.’ But it’s wonderful to be alive at 20 in any era.” — Herbert Gold, Driving The Beat Road, The Washington Post (2017-06-30)
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“Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.” — Jack McDevitt, Odyssey
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“We are connected with some people and never meet others, but it could easily have happened otherwise.” — Roger Ebert, RED (1994-13-02)
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“Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.” — Rudyard Kipling, “Fiction,” speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926
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“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.” — Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898
