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Browsing Quotes With Tag: curiosity (2)

  • Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? I was inviting a permanent, violent guest into my home. He would defecate on my bed. He would shred my clothes, light fires on the walls. I could see him walking up the driveway and I stood at the door, knowing that I’d be a fool to bring him inside. But I still opened the door.

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
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    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:56 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: curiosity, knowledge, self-destruction

  • It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way.

    Speaker: Edith Wharton
    Source: http://findquotes.com/
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    Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 3:05 PM
    Posted By: dirid51
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    Tags: alive, change, curiosity, happy, illness, sorrow, unafraid