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“ The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface. ”

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A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.

~ Karen Joy Fowler