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“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!”
― Against the Day
― Against the Day
“Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.”
― All Tomorrow's Parties
― All Tomorrow's Parties
“Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.”
― Collected Fictions
― Collected Fictions
“We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.”
― Extinction
― Extinction
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