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"Virginia's books are always ones that you want to read all over again once finished." — Jul 19, 2011 05:52PM
"Virginia's books are always ones that you want to read all over again once finished." — Jul 19, 2011 05:52PM
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"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
"As day requires night and night requires day so meaning requires absurdity and absurdity requires meaning. Noon is a moment, midnight is a moment, morning comes from night, evening turns into night, but evening comes from the day and morning turns into day. So meaning is a moment and a transition from absurdity to absurdity, and absurdity only a moment and transition from meaning to meaning." — Jan 05, 2025 09:52AM
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"Chipped away some more of this today. Very thought provoking. Was Dick in contact with some divine entity? Or was it caused by his stroke? Or maybe all the drugs he took? Either way, the book is like having coffee with a modern day philosopher." — Jul 18, 2013 01:57PM
"Chipped away some more of this today. Very thought provoking. Was Dick in contact with some divine entity? Or was it caused by his stroke? Or maybe all the drugs he took? Either way, the book is like having coffee with a modern day philosopher." — Jul 18, 2013 01:57PM
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was that anybody who worked for inanimate money so he could buy more inanimate objects was out of his head. Inanimate money was to get animate warmth,
“Then again, it’s the whole Reagan program, isn’t it—dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity—‘I don’t like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.”
― Vineland
― Vineland
“There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. —WERNHER VON BRAUN”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
“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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