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But the burden of our treatise is to show that non-locality is unavoidable in any theory which recovers the predictions of quantum theory.
“One can’t found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.”
― Shadow & Claw
― Shadow & Claw
“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Piece and Piece and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, "Be My Baby" on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Saloninus’ Third Law: every human being is capable of an infinite quantity of work, so long as it’s not the work he’s supposed to be doing.”
― Under My Skin
― Under My Skin
“I’ve been calling it him, but so what? Go back and change the pronouns for yourself, if they offend you.”
― The Long Game
― The Long Game
“Stealing for a living is like falling off a roof. For a while, you sail along, exhilarated by the slipstream, free as a bird and twice as fast through the air, and then you hit something and it’s suddenly no good at all.”
― Under My Skin
― Under My Skin
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