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#1

“But the Australians, what do the Australians do? How do they structure their landscape? For a start they postulate a primal builder, whose work they presume only to interpret: the mythical animal who was active in the “dreamtime,” that is, a primal era, beyond verification, as the name indicates. A time of sleep. The visible landscape is an effect of causes that are to be found in the dreamtime. For example, the snake that dragged itself over this plain creating these undulations, etc., etc. These.. curious Aborigines make sure their eyes are closed while events take place, which allows them to see places as records of events. But what they see is a kind of dream, and they wake into a reverie, since the real story (the snake, not the hills) happened while they were asleep.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

tags: aboriginal-culture, australian-aboriginal, dreamtime

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#2

“Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: altered-states, dream-state, fading, lost, slipping-away, vulnerability

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#2

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#3

“In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

tags: bones, ocean, sea, water

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#4

“O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

tags: consider, foot-in-mouth, pause, speaking, thoughtlessness

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#5

“Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

tags: truth, truth-inspirational

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#5

“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: black-holes, eyes

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#6

“I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don't believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.”
― Andrew Masterson, The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther

tags: evil, humour, mornings

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#7

“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”
― Rita Mae Brown

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#8

“We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.”
― Cory Doctorow, For the Win

tags: arab-spring, labour-movement, occupy-wall-street, revolution-movements

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#8

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
― Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography

tags: depression, helping-others, mental-illness, relating, self-disclosure, suffering

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#9

“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.
About anything.
"Need a poo, Todd."
"Shutup, Manchee."
"Poo. Poo, Todd."
"I said shut it.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

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#9

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple

tags: cthulu, madness

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#10

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”
― John Patrick Lowrie, Dancing with Eternity

tags: english, humour, language, writing

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#11

“All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.”
― Audrey Auden, Realms Unreel

tags: eternal-life, immortality, mortality, reincarnation

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#11

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

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#12

“No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: hope, insulation, islands, isolation, life, originality, tragedy

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#12

“When a man plans, a woman laughs.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: gender-stereotypes, humour, men, paraphrased, plans, women

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#13

“George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

tags: meaning-of-life, truth, truth-inspirational

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#13

“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: death, life, solitude

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#14

“If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

tags: fear, truth

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#15

“Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

tags: going-too-far, limits

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#15

“For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

tags: chances, odds, possibilities, probability

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#16

“Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.
I forget who said it and I no longer care.”
― Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet

tags: morality, post-apocalyptic, societal-breakdown, solitude

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#16

“Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: stories

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#17

“If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: blame, consequences, deeds, forgiveness, immortality

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#17

“Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.”
― Sid Vicious

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#18

“Fred said, “Man, I think he’s gonna make a fuckin’ suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.”
“Holy crap,” said John. “He’ll be gorgeous.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: horror, humour

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#19

“It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”
― John Hodgman

tags: book-stores, books, borders

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#19

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

tags: anansi-boys

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