"We live in the world that our mental maps create."
"Ultimately, the route to the greatest knowledge of all that's around us combines an awareness of infinite possibility and the close examination of the individual."
"We can never truly escape the confines of the self."
"The point is not to prohibit the personal, but to examine it with utter ruthlessness."
"The writer has to judge himself with a strangers' eye and a strangers' severity...No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in the art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing being seen and the thing being made."
-Flannery O'Connor
"A neighborhood, like a home, is a state of mind."
"We live in the world that our mental maps create."
"What we call our train of thought is more like a tornado of thought."
"We don't always want objective information-we want to understand how others see the world, and so grow beyond the confines of out own perspective."
"To truly speak our mind-to give voice to all our thoughts-would be to risk sounding out of our mind."
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