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"The truth of the world is exhausting."
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"Writing is freedom."
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"You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness."
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"Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope."
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"Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission."
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"Off-camera lives are unverifiable."
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"Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field."
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"Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird."
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"...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity."
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"There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us."
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"Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping."
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"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
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"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
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"The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it."
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"He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful."
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"Freud is finished, Einstein's next."
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"You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen."

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"World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained."
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"Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)"
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"Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs."
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"Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent."
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"I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change."
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"Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun."
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"As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive."
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"Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes."
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"He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight."
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"Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?"
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"I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory."
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"Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror."
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"The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement."
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"If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity."
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"How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?"
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"The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire."
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"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
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"I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters."
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"Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it."
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"The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile."
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"It is all falling indelibly into the past."
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"That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation."
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"We need time to lose interest in things."
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"Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain."
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"Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory."
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"Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational."
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"Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before."
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"For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is."
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"I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone."
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"The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever."
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"The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress."
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