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“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“But I consider that the matter of defining what is real — that is a serious topic, even a vital topic. And in there somewhere is the other topic, the definition of the authentic human. Because the bombardment of pseudo- realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans — as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. It is just a very large version of Disneyland. You can have the Pirate Ride or the Lincoln Simulacrum or Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride — you can have all of them, but none is true.”
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“She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.”
― Confessions of a Crap Artist
― Confessions of a Crap Artist

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