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Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, 'Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.' Well, socially I fit in just fine between the whore and the bartender. Both are close friends. And I knew the world was round. Yet, as time went by I found myself confronted with the ugly suspicion that the world was, after all, flat and that there were things dark and terrible waiting just over the edge to reach out and snatch life from the unlucky, unwary wanderer. ↗


— Jeff Rice


#journalism #kolchak #press #reporter #truth

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum. ↗


— Jon Krakauer


#culture #culture-and-imperialism #modernity #progress #sherpas

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗


— Ursula Hegi


#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. ↗


— Miguel de Unamuno


#philosophy #life

Life is serious...but you cannot take it seriously. ↗


— Peter Butterworth


#life

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗


— Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp. ↗


— Alexander Schmemann


#secularism #spirituality #life

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. ↗


— George Eliot


#poverty #life

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more. ↗


— Michel Houellebecq


#novels #realism #reality #writers #writing

Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. ↗


— T. Casey Brennan


#vegan #veganism #life






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