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We understand at a deep level what he means when he concludes that, for so many, America has proven to be “an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness.”
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“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
“If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.”
― Little Big Man
― Little Big Man
“The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat — & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you — so don’t play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr — accept the fact that you’re a criminal & be prepared to act like one.”
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
― TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
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