Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
Terry Pratchett
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Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that’s just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.
Tyson Fury
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If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.
Nipsey Hussle
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Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning
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All my books are made up of other books. They’re all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn’t have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people’s novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
Zadie Smith
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By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.
Tom Wolfe
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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
Leonard Cohen
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I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I’m inspired by it. It’s sort of what makes me tick.
Virgil Abloh
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A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes
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