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You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego. And you are never really attached to a thing but to a thought that has ‘I’, ‘me,’ or ‘mine’ in it. Whenever you completely accept a loss,
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“The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that, we can write our Constitution.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.”
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“I have greatest confidence in my writing when it approaches an insane condition in a sober and unstrained manner.”
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
― Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
“It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“For I will memorize you. Like slaughtered ox meat I will see every piece of you hooked and splayed on the back of my lids.”
― Year of the Rat
― Year of the Rat
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