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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.



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No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.



Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.




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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.



I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)



Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.



I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.



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