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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“But the plants seemed to remind me that we are by no means at the center of planetary telos because there is no center, only the distributed emergence of complexity and its dissolution (cosmos).”
— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere
Tagged: Joyful Complexity, The Place Of The Human
“Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
Tagged: Collage, Remix, Progress
“You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realities, which you can study, too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors, and you— all of you— will be left to just study what we do.”
— David Shields, Reality Hunger
Tagged: History, Too Fast, Reality Moves, Never Static, Against Objectivity
“I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Collective Power, Digital Witchhunts, Crowdthought
“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives. It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”
— Hanya Yanagihara, Relying on Friendship in a World Made for Couples
Tagged: Friendship, The Ways We Love
“I've been waiting to meet you.”
— Lana Del Rey, Be Air
Tagged: Fate
“Twisting off to the sun, all my missions float away, I've got no Houston to whine down to, I've got no protocol. My soul is celestial-bound.”
— Ken Andrews, Another Space Song
Tagged: Moving Away, Song Lyrics
“You know that I’m two levels above you baby. 
Talking crazy ain’t gonna leave you nothing but choked. 
And that jealousy is gonna leave you broke. 
So the only thing left now for these cats is God.
And you know we’re too hard for these cats, 
I’m going win cause I’m too smart for these cats.”
— Puff Daddy, Victory
Tagged: Rap Genius, Rap Poetry
“With everyone’s interests misaligned, the hoped-for network effects won’t materialize.”
— Alex Magnin, Medium For Publishers Will Be A Hard Sell
Tagged: Digital Advertising, Medium, Network Effects
“Though we may be sober now, we will never be clean.”
— Bianca Sparacino, We love certain people like addictions
Tagged: Weight, Moving On, History Is A Nightmare, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences