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Credo che sia molto meglio non leggere affatto, piuttosto che leggere Dan Brown, Giorgio Faletti e Paulo Coelho.
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Postato alle 19:40 09 Marzo 2012
Discutevano perché amavano le discussioni, amavano la rapida corsa della mente libera lungo i sentieri delle possibilità, amavano mettere in dubbio ciò che non veniva mai messo in dubbio.
Erano intelligenti, le loro menti erano già disciplinate alla chiarezza della scienza, e avevano sedici anni.
— Ursula K. LeGuin - I reietti dell’altro pianeta -un’ambigua utopia (The Dispossessed - 1974) pag. 36
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Postato alle 14:36 31 Ottobre 2011
A star had to die for you to live -
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A star had to die for you to live -

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Poster design inspired by the popular BBC series ‘Wonders of the Universe’ presented by Professor Brian Cox.


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Postato alle 13:27 14 Giugno 2011
Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die.
— John Scalzi - The Ghost Brigades -pg 64
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Postato alle 10:32 29 Aprile 2011

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody.

(La cosa peggiore che ci possa capitare è che nessuno si serva di noi per qualche cosa.)

— Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan
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Postato alle 17:18 06 Febbraio 2011
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley, “Proper Studies”, 1927
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Postato alle 21:50 19 Gennaio 2011
How right
I should have been to keep away, and let
You have your innocent-guilty-innocent night
Of switching partners in your own sad set:
How useless to invite
The sickening breathlessness of being young
Into my life again



Philip Larkin, The Dance - citato da Colin Dexter in Death Is Now My Neighbour

Quanto è stato inutile invitare
il nauseante affanno della tua giovinezza
nella mia vita, ancora

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Postato alle 18:58 29 Dicembre 2010
Those who refuse to listen to dragons will probably spend their lives acting out the nightmares of politicians.
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night

Ursula K. LeGuin - il linguaggio della notte

the language of the night « a subtle knife

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Postato alle 10:37 27 Ottobre 2010
Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood: After three hours I’m drained, even if I love the person I’m with. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.
— Anneli Rufus (via fuckyeahsolitude)

(via awaitanothervoice)

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Postato alle 17:24 25 Settembre 2010

Vou soltar meu gado
deitar no pasto
roubar a cena
sorrir sem pena
Sem puxar as rédeas
Sem seguir as regras
Sem pesar ou ânsia
Sem errar a dança

Se é pra vir, que venha

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Postato alle 21:09 13 Settembre 2010
That is precisely what common sense is for, to be jarred into uncommon sense. One of the chief services which mathematics has rendered the human race in the past century is to put ‘common sense’ where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labeled ‘discarded nonsense .’

- The Queen of the Sciences - Eric Temple Bell

citato in “Cities in Flight” di James Blish

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Postato alle 23:12 21 Giugno 2010
PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina.

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

- Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com

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Postato alle 11:33 27 Aprile 2010
All at once I liked him, his firm grace with others, his unlikely modesty, the exotic parties he attended.
The desire to befriend him came over me suddenly and certainly, and, as I debated and decided not to shake his hand again, I thought how suddenness and certainty had attended all my childhood friendships, until that long, miserable moment of puberty during which I’d been afraid to befriend boys and seemingly unable to befriend girls.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Wikiquote - Ch.2 - Michael Chabon
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Postato alle 10:54 22 Aprile 2010

Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said.
Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.

“It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere,” Kanazawa said.

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Postato alle 17:36 28 Febbraio 2010
In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and in every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.
— Iain M. Bank - Use of Weapons
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Postato alle 23:10 04 Febbraio 2010