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Jerry Balzano
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Born
in Far Rockaway, NY, The United States
Member Since
March 2010
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Event Cognition: An Ecological Perspective
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2014
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"John Banville is officially my favorite living writer. His use of language blows me away. This is lush; a vocabulary and syntax to wallow in, roll yourself about in, to drink it in in big gulps (sometimes) and taste it in dainty sips (sometimes). It "
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"This is simply a stunningly beautiful book. It focuses on a family which is gathered together because the father, Adam Godley, a brilliant theoretical mathematician, is on his deathbed. He is attended by his second wife, his son Adam (and Adam's wife"
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"A great mathematician lies dying in another of the infinity of separate but intermingled worlds that he has discovered exist. It is subtly different from ours -- cold fusion works, Wallace and not Darwin is remembered, Kleist is the great genius and "
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“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
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“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you want to read and you can’t find it and you have to write it yourself.”
― Survival Lessons
― Survival Lessons
“The only time when you and I really entered into literature, entered the kingdom of letters, was when each of us sat as a child absorbed in the magic pages of a book: in some snug corner of a quiet room or sheltered in some lost recess of the seashore with the muffled sound of the wind and sea to concentrate our thought — that is reading, that is literature.”
― The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education
― The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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