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I’d had permanent depilation years ago. I opened the cabinet and took out a small brushbot, inserted it into my mouth and waited while it traversed round my teeth, cleaning them perfectly. Took it out and dropped it into its sanitizer, then
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“Jump in the urinal and stand on your head
I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
Lean over the bowl and then take a dive
All of you are dead. I am alive.”
― Ubik
I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
Lean over the bowl and then take a dive
All of you are dead. I am alive.”
― Ubik
“He had the sense of penetrating something membranous which clung elastically to his face. Then he heard a voice say: 'It was amazing to them to discover they had always been in the garden without understanding it', and knew for certain that the inside and the outside of everything are always a single, continuous medium. In that moment he believed he could go anywhere. With a shout of elation he attempted to fall forward in all possible directions at once; only to find to his dismay that in the very exercise of this privilege he had selected one of them.”
― Light
― Light
“I try not to laugh but I do, a little. I explain that the truth is, most nurses are idiots. Everyone trusts them be- cause they have a degree and wear scrubs, but that doesn't mean anything. It's even worse with doctors. The truth is that you don't got to be anything special to be a nurse or a doctor or a surgeon or a senator or anyone with station. The truth is, they're all just people, so most of them are average or a lot worse than that.”
― Burn You the Fuck Alive
― Burn You the Fuck Alive
“I want to know more about what dogs are feeling, and how those feelings compare with mine. I want to know because I was trained as a scientist and am driven by the druglike excitement of discovery. I want to know because I think it's important for our species to understand where we fit in with the rest of life. In addition, so much suffering - in both species - could be prevented if we had a better understanding of the emotional lives of our dogs. My dogs are as important to me as my human friends. They are my buddies, my family, my co-workers, my therapists, and, like all good friends, occasionally thorns in my side. I want to know more about who they are, and what they are feeling - partly from a desire to give them the best life I can, and partly from a desire to deepen our friendship”
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
“Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. No, I do not wish you success. I don't even want to talk about it. I want to talk about failure.
Because you are human beings, you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself - as I know you already have - in dark places, alone, and afraid.
What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign.”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Because you are human beings, you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself - as I know you already have - in dark places, alone, and afraid.
What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign.”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
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