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James MacDonald
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“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”
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“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― Zero History
― Zero History
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