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Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all but indistinguishable from clairvoyance.
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“Never worry about what you are escaping from,” he said. “Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.”
“People notice only what you tell them to notice,” he said. “And then only if you remind them.”
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.
