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“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
― Don DeLillo

“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
― Don DeLillo, Falling Man

“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives. ”
― John Updike

“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
― Johnny Cash

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness