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f9de5fe
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Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
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writing
wisdom
prophetic
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Milan Kundera |
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I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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hopeful
prophetic
mystery
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Cormac McCarthy |
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity--a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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prophetic
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Isaac Asimov |
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bce47f4
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And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!
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humor
prophetic
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Thomas Pynchon |
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57f9240
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"It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort."
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truth
wisdom
lost-values
needs-and-wants
self-injurious-behaviors
social-satire-predictability
the-way-the-world-works
prophetic
hedonism
human-nature
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Isaac Asimov |
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Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fail when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America. Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
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music
prophetic
vices
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Henry David Thoreau |
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1fa9a3d
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But the very action of naming something that subsequently happens--of wishing specific evil, and that evil coming to pass--this still has a shiver of the otherworldly about it.
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otherworldly
prophetic
the-sense-of-an-ending
uncanny
julian-barnes
evil
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Julian Barnes |