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"(Is that what a memoir is - a ghost tour? I'm confronting what haunts me. I'm out with lanterns, looking.)"

"if you're going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire."

"To achieve true greatness, genuine freedom, you must be like the sculptor who sets aside her ego before chiseling a statue..."

"When we reconfigure society to put exchange at the center, we violate our nature. Humans thrived by hunting together, cooking communally, making music and telling stories around a blazing fire at night."

"Time and again over the course of the twentieth century the Technostructure grew beyond our control, overwhelming any notion of market discipline or public virtue. Like a virus, it has repeatedly sickened its host."

"The moment we allow someone who doesn't work in the cafe to buy into it, it's finished. It'll close or end up as another miserable Starbucks, an appendage of the Technostructure."

"It's painful to believe that the would be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feelings (...) who wouldn't fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worth of respect?" -- David Foster Wallace (2000) About a far far away presidential election...

"Danado é a gente acreditar numa ideia (mesmo que parcialmente) e ver um intelecto de primeira grandeza questionar aquela ideia. Seja qual for o resultado, a gente sai dessa batalha mais rico do que entrou."

"o ouro é que achava o homem até quando ele dormia, que a coisa mais poderosa que a gente tem é a mente dominada por um desejo, por um amor ou por um ódio, que muda o que os olhos veem, faz ouvir o que se quer, amolda o mundo ao desejo."

"fechava os olhos e lia dentro da cabeça dele as histórias que eu ouvia sem cansar, enquanto olhava prás folhas que ele devagar virava, doidinho pra descobrir o segredo das palavras desenhadas no papel..."

Uau! Que estória: terrivelmente claro enquanto explora o futuro da humanidade lutando pra minimizar a destruição decorrente de sua modernização desvairada.

"Maybe the value of art, to artists and everyone else, is that it upends other value systems. Art unmasked the world made by work."