“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery. ”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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