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“I liked my own company. I wanted pals, but I grew to like my own company. There was me, and there was all yous. I liked that feeling. I still do.”
― Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
― Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
“My God . . . that grinding is a greeting.
My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe”
― Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
“It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“If there was any "sin", it was that these people wanted to keep having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“They’re all the same, Kyoshi thought. Every single one. Whether they clothe themselves in business or brotherhood or a higher calling only they can see, it doesn't matter. They’re one and the same. They look at themselves like forces of nature, as inevitable ends, but they’re not. Their depth is as false as the shoals at low tide. They twist the meaning of justice to absolve themselves of conscience. They’re humans like us, made of skin and guts and pain. They need to be reminded of that fact.”
― The Rise of Kyoshi
― The Rise of Kyoshi
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