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  • #1
    Philip K. Dick
    “What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”
    Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

  • #2
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #3
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #4
    Cormac McCarthy
    “He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #5
    Gene Wolfe
    “...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me”
    Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer

  • #6
    Gene Wolfe
    “That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
    Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator

  • #7
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
    Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

  • #8
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.”
    Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

  • #9
    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.”
    Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #11
    Dan Simmons
    “Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
    Dan Simmons, Hyperion

  • #12
    Cormac McCarthy
    “The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

    The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #13
    Cormac McCarthy
    “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #14
    Cormac McCarthy
    “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #15
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #16
    Cormac McCarthy
    “They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

  • #17
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

    He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
    Stephen King, Pet Sematary

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “Sometimes dead is better”
    Stephen King, Pet Sematary

  • #20
    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #21
    Herman Melville
    “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #22
    Herman Melville
    “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #23
    Herman Melville
    “I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #24
    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

  • #25
    Anthony Burgess
    “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
    Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

  • #26
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #27
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
    Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  • #28
    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “Suddenly the day was gone,
    night came out from under each tree and spread.”
    Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych



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