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Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.
Lloyd Demause
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I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

neil gaiman

— Neil Gaiman's Twitter stream, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009)

Tags: tweet, life, shrunk, character, instant, event, gnomic, wisdom, swearing

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On this occasion, despite the wind and sparkling stars, they looked just like huge chunks of stone, pathetically chiseled by desperate folk to resemble stern gods. People did bizarre things when they were afraid...as most men and women had been for nearly all the time since the species evolved.

david brin

— Part VIII (p. 480)

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The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

haruki murakami

— A Wild Sheep Chase

Tags: house, kept, own, time, oldfashioned, grandfather, clock, living, room

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I’m one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

abby sunderland

— p. 106 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))

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Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see.


— Minnie Richard Smith, "Stick to Your Job," lines 1–2. Christian F. Kleinknecht, Poor Richard's Anthology of Thoughts on Success (1947), p. 44.

Tags: Diamonds, coal, stuck, jobs, you, see

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