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“There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.'

In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most.”
― Kim Newman, Anno Dracula

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Sooner or later, everything turns into television.”
― J.G. Ballard

“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”
― William Burroughs

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
― Raymond Chandler

“He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”
― Avicenna, A Compendiun On The Soul

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.”
― Raymond Chandler

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
― Raymond Chandler

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.”
― Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.”
― Raymond Chandler