

“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.”
― Beware of Pity
― Beware of Pity

“I heard the students speaking and wondered how they could believe in human reality sufficiently to construct fantasies about it.”
― Transit
― Transit

“our long-lost paradise with all the aching, poison-sweet memories it holds”
― Complicity
― Complicity

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
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“But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
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