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“From earliest childhood I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. My sister and I used to run outside and dance under the stars on our cool front lawn and laugh manically and sing 'Hitch-hike, hitch-hike, give us a ride,' imagining we could be taken up into the sky on broomsticks.”
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“That is god... A shout in the street,' Stephen answered...”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.”
― Eve's Hollywood
― Eve's Hollywood
“Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relevant constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears...”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“I believe in God the Father, in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son, in the blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Ghost, in Adam Cadmium, in chrome nickel, the oxides and the mercurochromes, in waterfowls and water cress, in epileptoid seizures, in bubonic plagues, in devachan, in planetary conjunctions, in chicken tracks and stick-throwing, in revolutions, in stock crashes, in wars, earthquakes, cyclones, in Kali Yuga and in hula-hula. I believe. I believe. I believe because not to believe is to become as lead, to lie prone and rigid, forever inert, to waste away...”
― Sexus, The Rosy Crucifixion Part One
― Sexus, The Rosy Crucifixion Part One
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