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“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Little Something For Us Tempunauts

“A friend of mine in the ER told me that the animal consciousness is one of the here-and-now and that the human being can approximate it by drinking five martinis while soaking in a hot tub.”
― Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest

“We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.”
― Mark Vonnegut