Not only could nobody tell me, but nobody even had the sense that it was an interesting question. They looked at me funny. I asked my parents; I asked my parents’ friends; I asked other adults. None of them knew. My mother said to me, “Look, we’ve just got you a library card. Take it, get on the streetcar, go to the New Utrecht branch of the New York Public Library, get out a book and find the answer.”
~ Carl Sagan
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This distinction holds for adult reading too. The dangerous fantasy is always superficially realistic. The real victim of wishful reverie does not batten on the Odyssey, The Tempest, or The Worm Ouroboros: he (or she) prefers stories about millionaires, irresistible beauties, posh hotels, palm beaches and bedroom scenes—things that really might happen, that ought to happen, that would have happened if the reader had had a fair chance. For, as I say, there are two kinds of longing. The one is an askesis, a spiritual exercise, and the other is a disease.
~ C.S. Lewis from, C.S. Lewis on the Three Ways of Writing for Children and the Key to Authenticity in All Writing
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Sticking to a new habit isn’t easy — but if you set up your habit change smartly, you can make it stick.
~ Leo Babauta from, The Smart Way to Stick to Habits
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“You have a grand gift of silence, Watson,” said he,
~ Arthur C. Doyle
“It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
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All aborad!! #NYC bound with wifi, and Fresh oatmeal cookies (my abs fave!) from Chez Anton!
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First laché to arm-jump ever. Many thanks to Mike Jones for pushing me for a couple hours at BKB!
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Longest cat I think I’ve ever done. Climbup still needs lots of work!
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If you know what this sheet is, then you will know why I am darn proud to have it entirely filled in! Thanks Blake, and everyone who’s helped me so much!
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Finally made it to Brooklyn Boulders!!
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Sunday morning wakeup class!
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