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“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson

“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

“This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Here, listen to this; a poem by a Greek who lived in Alexandria, one Cavafy: “You said, ‘I shall go to another land to another sea Another city will be found better than this. My every effort is a written indictment And my heart—like the dead—is buried. How long will my mind be in this decay,’ “and so on like that, it’s the same old song we know so well—if only I were somewhere else, I would be happy. Until the poet replies to his poor friend, “New lands you will not find, you won’t find other seas. The city will follow you. The streets you roam will be the same. There is no boat for you, there is no street. In the same way your life you destroyed here In this petty corner, you have spoiled it in the entire universe.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora