4 Quotes by john durham peters
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Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you haven't read shine more brightly than those you have, and often reading part of a book will shape your mind more decisively than reading all of it; there is no inherent epistemic superiority to having read a book or not having read it.
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If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...
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Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise.
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Miscommunication is the scandal that motivates the very concept of communication in the first place.
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