“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
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“Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.”
― Into the Media Web: Selected Short Non-fiction, 1956-2006
― Into the Media Web: Selected Short Non-fiction, 1956-2006
“Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.”
― The Getaway
― The Getaway
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
“She yawned. If the Lords of Entropy were to manifest themselves on Earth again as they had in the legendary past she felt she might welcome them as a relief, at least, to her boredom. Not, of course, that she believed in those terrible prehistoric fables, though sometimes she could not help wishing that they had really existed and that she had lived in them, for they must surely have been more colourful and stimulating than this present age, where dull Reason drove bright Romance away: granite scattering mercury.”
― Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
― Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
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