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“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"
~Something Wicked This Way Comes”
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~Something Wicked This Way Comes”
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“San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a moment’s squall-line or tornado’s touchdown among the higher, more continental solemnities—storm-systems of group suffering and need, prevailing winds of affluence. There was the true continuity, San Narciso had no boundaries. No one knew yet how to draw them. She had dedicated herself, weeks ago, to making sense of what Inverarity had left behind, never suspecting that the legacy was America.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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