“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
“All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth or falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.”
— Robert Sheckley, book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 14 (p. 70)
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