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“When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”

— Jen Knox, After The Gazebo

“Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything – evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing – it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. W…”

— Michael Crichton, Prey

“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also take…”

— Mark Epstein, Open To Desire

“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”

— J.B. Priestley, Dangerous Corner

“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of…”

— Ben Rhodes, The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru

“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or no…”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Don DeLillo is the only person I can think of who has confronted these questions of, you know, the individual who finds himself negotiating both vast currents of history and a very specific kind of power dynamics. That’s his milieu. And that’s what it’s like to work in the U.S. foreign-policy appara…”

— Ben Rhodes, The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru

“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

— Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

“An Italian surgeon plans to perform the first human head transplant next year. Besides being completely unethical, it’s scientifically unfounded and a crazy thing to do.”

— Dr. Bruce Gelb, ‘Life Changing’ Penis Transplants Are the New Frontier in Medicine

“It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.”

— Frank Drebin, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

“A good life is not a life without problems. A good life is a life with good problems. And so, despite the turbulence of the rocky waves and twisting tides, I can sometimes stare into the heart of my confusion and the crossed strains of joy and sadness, and smile and be grateful that it’s all there.”

— Mark Manson, Shut Up and Be Patient

“Everyone has doubts. Everyone freaks out about where they are in life. But that’s a good thing. You’re open to change and growth.”

— Ari Eastman, 10 Signs You’re Actually Kicking Ass At Life Right Now (And You Didn’t Even Know It)

“Remembering means taking the good with the bad, the happy with the sad. It means living in shades of grey, rather than in the shade of certainty.”

— Jacob Geers, When Remembering The Past Hurts, But You Don’t Want To Forget

“You are a daughter of Christ. Do you know how wonderful that is? That means no matter where you wander, what obstacles cross your path, or how broken you feel—you are loved.Fully. Unconditionally. Forever.Know this: God chose you. Christ died for you.”

— Marisa Donnelly, You Are A Daughter Of Christ

“The flight, EgyptAir 804, departed Paris at 11:09 p.m. on Wednesday. The pilot spoke to Greek air traffic controllers at 2:26 a.m., and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, officials said. Three or four minutes later, the plane made its last radar contact.”

— Declan Walsh, EgyptAir Flight 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean

“The only rite of passage more stressful than wedding planning may be canceling a wedding. When a couple decides to break up after the invitations have been sent, the space has been reserved and the honeymoon booked, they face two tasks that can be as horrifying as ending the relationship itself.”

— Amy Sohn, You’ve Canceled the Wedding, Now the Aftermath

“The fold: the Baroque invents the infinite work or process. The problem is not how to finish a fold, but how to continue it, to have it go through the ceiling, how to bring it to infinity. It is not only because the fold affects all materials that it thus becomes expensive matter, with different sca…”

— Gilles Deleuze, The Fold

“On TV, there’s another war. Around and around and around. Even the most entrenched believers in the new global order have a mounting sense that some fundamental mindshift is needed. The contradictions of late-capitalist life put increasing pressure on our psyches to synthesize the data, yet insights…”

— Rob Wipond, Opening the Door - Adbusters | Journal of the mental environment

“Can there be any finer demonstration of the insularity and mediocrity of today’s Manhattan prestige media? Wow, millionaire workaholic Donald Trump chased young, beautiful, willing women and liked to boast about it. Jail him now! Blame for this fiasco falls squarely upon the New York Times editors w…”

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can’t touch Donald Trump

“The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic.”

— Robert Kagan, This is how fascism comes to America