The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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