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Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind.
The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Natural selection has shaped our minds as well as our bodies.
"The major threats to survival that our ancestors faced - predators, starvation, disease - left their mark on our fears and anxieties."
"We are all descendants of successful maters, not unsuccessful ones, and this has shaped our mating psychology in profound ways."
"Men and women differ in their desires for short-term mating because the reproductive benefits and costs differed for our ancestors."
"The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors."
A great novel is one that makes us see the world with new eyes.
The best stories are those that leave us with more questions than answers.
A great novel is one that changes the way we see the world.
The best literature is that which makes us see the world anew.
A great novel is a mirror and a window: it shows us ourselves and the world.
The best stories are those that haunt us long after we finish reading.
The best literature is that which makes us uncomfortable, which disturbs our sleep.
Literature is the fire that keeps us human in an inhuman world.
The best stories are those that disturb us, that force us to question our certainties.
The novel is a lie that makes us see the truth.
A good novel tells us the truth about its characters; a great novel tells us the truth about ourselves.
Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass, and die.
When we no longer have the power to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.