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His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there__ a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the truth happens to inspire, I, in addition, find it easier to believe that he in fact does his homework on how and when one should truly inspire.

Practice what you preach and let people learn from you

Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!

What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we__e going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seemingly be in more than one place at the same time until it is observed, at which point there seems to be a random choice made about where the particle is really located. Scientists currently believe that this randomness is genuine, not just caused by a lack of information. Repeat the experiment under the same conditions and you may get a different answer each time.

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.