“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
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If people lived forever — if they never got any older — if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy — do you think they'd bother to think hard about things, the way we're doing now? I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less — philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such thing as death, that complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world.
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