The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people’s treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Wired Japan – June 1997 Issue
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight.
~ Mark Twain
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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
~ Iris Murdoch
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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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