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“It’s not a transparent bubble pod. It’s a hollow log in a forest that you can spend the night in.” “Why would anyone want to spend the night in a log?” “Wow, you really need to get out of your comfort zone. I’d love to spend a night in a
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“Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinions anymore.”
― Galápagos
― Galápagos
“This was going to be even more annoying than I had anticipated, and I had anticipated a pretty high level of annoyance, maybe as high as 85 percent. Now I was looking at 90 percent, possibly 95 percent.”
― Rogue Protocol
― Rogue Protocol
“The house seemed different then, when she was in it, and the strange thing was that I could feel it; if, for example, I had gone to sleep before she returned and I awoke in the middle of the night, I could sense she was there, something in the atmosphere had changed without my being able to put my finger on quite what it was, except to say that it had a reassuring effect.”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way”
― My Struggle: Book 1
― My Struggle: Book 1
“it was defensible to want to stand like an Easter Island monument in this trance of motorized ascension through architectures of retailing. Fairly early on, riding up to Housewares to buy a Revere saucepan to pair with my Teflon fry pan and complete my kitchen,”
― The Mezzanine
― The Mezzanine
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